Debugging a Delphi app on Wine

I have a Delphi Windows app that dies horribly under Wine - doesn't even get to creating the main form. Porting to Free Pascal is not an option for various reasons.

Can I debug under Wine using Delphi's native means? If not, can I debug under Wine using gdb, and if so, how do I feed the debug info in Delphi format (Turbo Debugger probably) to gdb?

Finally, how can I detect Wine from a program? The Wine FAQ says I should not, but I don't think that fixing my app is high on the Wine guys' priority list, so I'd rather take the matters in my own hands.

I did not write the app, b开发者_StackOverflowut I have the sources and a copy of Delphi.

I do believe you should be able to debug with gdb, but I don't know how you would feed all the Delphi sources to it. You would need to include all debug information in your EXE (including External debugger) to get started though.

I would recommend you get a logging utility that supports logging over TCP/IP. Two good ones are SmartInspect and CodeSite. Combine those with a stack tracing utility like the JCL provides and you might find it is a better solution then attaching the debugger anyway.

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Good luck on detecting Wine though. I would be curious to see what you come up with. Seems like it should be possible though.

You might be able to get the remote debugger to connect to the Wine app (never tried it), but that's asking a lot of Wine.

The first thing I'd try is using a stack tracing utility like the JCL debugging extensions. A stack trace may give you enough information to fix the issue without having to get debugging working under Linux.

If you've got the source code, then recompile with a bunch of debug messages in and try running it like you'd do on windows.

Wine has a lot of API's that are left unimplemented and you may have some luck installing extra packages at random with winetricks.

I had a similar problem using wine with our Delphi App, I needed to install the ODBC manager, which doesn't come in by default before I could get the thing to work.