Topic created on: February 8, 2007 14:49 CST by bmazic .

How do I load debugging symbols (or an IDB file) for a DLL used by the application being debugged?

I am trying to reverse engineer MSPATCHA.DLL. If I load the DLL directly into IDA Pro, the IDA finds and loads the associated PDB file and I can see all the internal symbols. Lovely.

So I wrote a little application that just calls a function in the DLL. Now, when I load the app into IDA, the IDA loads the application's PDB file, but not the MSPATCHA.DLL's PDB file (or what would be even better - the DLL's IDB file). In other words, when I start debugging the app and single step into the MSPATCHA.DLL not only that I don't see its local symbols, but the DLL has not being analysed by the IDA at all.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Boris

P.S. Is there anybody out there familiar with the patch file format (PA19)? I am particularly interested in the location of old file and new file CRC32s. They don't always seem to be at the same location in the patch file header.