How to get symbol table for SDK debug tool

Question

I want to run the WinDBG tool in the SDK but I cannot find a symbol table. After a lot of Internet searching I found that it is no longer available and Microsoft has moved everything to Azure. I have no clue how to navigate this web site; it is beyond my experience. Where are the symbols for downloading?

Answer 1

@Nicholas Geti Firstly, apologies for the delay in responding here and any inconvenience this issue may have caused. If you are looking for offline symbol packages for Windows.

With the cadence that we release updates for Windows, the Windows debugging symbols we publish via the packages on this page are quickly made out of date. We have made significant improvements to the online Microsoft Symbol Server by moving this to be an Azure-based symbol store, and symbols for all Windows versions and updates are available there. You can find more about this in this blog entry.

For information on how to retrieve symbols for a machine that is not connected to the Internet, see Using a Manifest File with SymChk.

To learn more about using symbols and debugging, see Symbols and Symbol Files.

For help with debugging issues, see Debugging Resources.

We are interested in your feedback about symbols. Please mail suggestions or bug reports to windbgfb@microsoft.com. Technical support is not available from this address, but your feedback will help us to plan future changes for symbols and will make them more useful to you in the future.

Hope this helps!

Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

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