Windbg symbol path

1) I developed a driver. I know how to set simple symbol path. How can
I refer to these driver symbols each time I have new version. I want to
keep all these versions in symbol path. Do I have create a new
subfolder for each version and copy my symbols there and update my
symbol path to point to newly created subfolder in addition to other
symbol path. Is there any other easy way? I cant put all the different
versions of binaries in same folder because they have same name and I
have to overwrite. Is there a way to suggest symbol path to recursively
search subfolder also.

2) In debugger window, do I have command to see version of my driver. I
have a crash file and it displays my driver name, but I also want to
know which version of the driver caused it. I know from device manager
or windows explorer, but I want to know from debugger window to help me
in this case.

Thanks,
Raj

 

You might consider setting up an internal symbol server repository and
adding the symbols for each version of your driver to your symbol server
repository. That way you can just point WinDbg to your symsrv repository
from any computer that can contact that server and it will automagically
find the right symbol versions for you.

 

Skywing mentioned a symbol server, which is what I thought of.

As for your second question, try using !lmi to look at the date of the
executable and determine from the date the version.

--
James Antognini
Windows DDK and WDK Support


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Thanks Skywing and James. I tried symstore and it has good features and
very useful(if it has GUI it would be easy to start with). For all
these days I was confused by the name "symbol server" giving impression
you need a server/IS/IT/admin and some complex setup to do this. All I
need is shared folder, as I understand.