How to get runtime symbols when building runtime ?

[jpdurot]

Hi, when building the runtime in Release mode, we used to have (at least for .Net 6) a dotnet-runtime-symbols-<platform>-<version>.tar.gz archive in the Shipping directory, containing all the PDB and R2R files needed to debug the custom runtime. It looks like we don't have any generated symbols for .Net 8 (and .Net 9). Is there any flag we could add to the build command line to generate symbols in Release configuration ?

[hez2010]

You can try generating the core_root layout after building clr+libs using

./src/tests/build.sh Release generatelayoutonly

Then all necessary files including coreclr, libraries and their pdb will be placed under artifacts/tests/coreclr/<platform>/Tests/Core_Root

[am11]

It was changed in #90050. Besides "use source-build" which has a slightly different workflow, there are two options:

1. override SkipArchivesBuild from build command ./build.sh clr+libs+packs -c Release -p:SkipArchivesBuild=false; it produces dotnet-runtime-symbols-<platform>-<version>.tar.gz as before.
2. disable symbol stripping (to separate files) ./build.sh clr+libs+packs -keepnativesymbols true -c Release; it produces fat/unstripped native binaries containing the debug symbols within.

[jpdurot]

Thanks a lot @am11, I tried the first option and indeed I now get the symbol archive !