External dependencies for dmd tests

[Benjamin Thaut]

Am 08.02.2014 16:50, schrieb Daniel Murphy:
> "Benjamin Thaut"  wrote in message news:ld5g0q$1c3q$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
>> I would like to extend the DMD testsuite with a test for cv8 debug
>> information. For that however I need a extarnal executable. Dia2Dump
>> wich is part of the examples of visual studio. How is such a situation
>> usually handeled? Is the binary stored prebuild somewhere? This test
>> would only run on windows, so it would be feasable to brebuild the
>> binary. Or is it required to be able to rebuild the external
>> dependencies?
>
> Could you use objconv instead?  I'd much rather we depended on that, and
> hopefully it would open the doors for debug info tests on other platforms.

After trying around with objconv, it doesn't seem to give me what I 
need. I didn't manage to make it give me debug information at all. 
Dia2Dump directly reads a .pdb file, and gives me the info in the same 
way as the visual studio debugger sees it.