calmdump

calmdump is a crash reporting component for Windows console application.

Introduction

[calmdump] 1 takes the core exception handling code in [crashrpt] 2, without screen capturing, file compression, video recording or anything else for client-only usage.

[calmdump] 1 aims to be a lightweight component of a C++ server-end software, mostly used for crash debugging case, when our server app crashes, calmdump collect the minidump file and print stack information to a specified file. that's what it do and what it don't do.

Usage

#include <Windows.h>
#include <CrashRpt.h>

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
    crInstall();    // this API handles everything
    
    // do your own job
}

Installation

1. Obtain premake5(http://premake.github.io/download.html)
2. Type premake5 vs2013 to generate Visual C++ solution files

Further Reading

A Crash Course on the Depths of Win32™ Structured Exception Handling

Vectored Exception Handling

Programming against the x64 exception handling support

Structure Exception Handling in Windows NT (in Chinese)