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-*- mode: Outline -*- [](https://travis-ci.org/libunwind/libunwind) This is version 1.3 of the unwind library. This library supports several architecture/operating-system combinations: Linux/x86-64: Works well. Linux/x86: Works well. Linux/ARM: Works well. Linux/IA-64: Works well. Linux/PARISC: Works well, but C library missing unwind-info. HP-UX/IA-64: Mostly works but known to have some serious limitations. MIPS: Newly added. Linux/AArch64: Works well. Linux/PPC64: Newly added. Linux/SuperH: Newly added. FreeBSD/i386: Works well. FreeBSD/x86-64: Newly added (FreeBSD architecture is known as amd64). Linux/Tilegx: Newly added (64-bit mode only). * General Build Instructions In general, this library can be built and installed with the following commands: $ ./autogen.sh # Needed only for building from git. Depends on libtool. $ ./configure $ make $ make install prefix=PREFIX where PREFIX is the installation prefix. By default, a prefix of /usr/local is used, such that libunwind.a is installed in /usr/local/lib and unwind.h is installed in /usr/local/include. For testing, you may want to use a prefix of /usr/local instead. * Building with Intel compiler ** Version 8 and later Starting with version 8, the preferred name for the IA-64 Intel compiler is "icc" (same name as on x86). Thus, the configure-line should look like this: $ ./configure CC=icc CFLAGS="-g -O3 -ip" CXX=icc CCAS=gcc CCASFLAGS=-g \ LDFLAGS="-L$PWD/src/.libs" * Building on HP-UX For the time being, libunwind must be built with GCC on HP-UX. libunwind should be configured and installed on HP-UX like this: $ ./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2 -mlp64" CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -mlp64" Caveat: Unwinding of 32-bit (ILP32) binaries is not supported at the moment. ** Workaround for older versions of GCC GCC v3.0 and GCC v3.2 ship with a bad version of sys/types.h. The workaround is to issue the following commands before running "configure": $ mkdir $top_dir/include/sys $ cp /usr/include/sys/types.h $top_dir/include/sys GCC v3.3.2 or later have been fixed and do not require this workaround. * Building for PowerPC64 / Linux For building for power64 you should use: $ ./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2 -m64" CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -m64" If your power support altivec registers: $ ./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2 -m64 -maltivec" CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -m64 -maltivec" To check if your processor has support for vector registers (altivec): cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep altivec and should have something like this: cpu : PPC970, altivec supported If libunwind seems to not work (backtracing failing), try to compile it with -O0, without optimizations. There are some compiler problems depending on the version of your gcc. * Building on FreeBSD General building instructions apply. To build and execute several tests, you need libexecinfo library available in ports as devel/libexecinfo. Development of the port was done of FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE. The library was build with the system compiler that is modified version of gcc 4.2.1, as well as the gcc 4.4.3. * Regression Testing After building the library, you can run a set of regression tests with: $ make check ** Expected results on IA-64 Linux Unless you have a very recent C library and compiler installed, it is currently expected to have the following tests fail on IA-64 Linux: Gtest-init (should pass starting with glibc-2.3.x/gcc-3.4) Ltest-init (should pass starting with glibc-2.3.x/gcc-3.4) test-ptrace (should pass starting with glibc-2.3.x/gcc-3.4) run-ia64-test-dyn1 (should pass starting with glibc-2.3.x) This does not mean that libunwind cannot be used with older compilers or C libraries, it just means that for certain corner cases, unwinding will fail. Since they're corner cases, it is not likely for applications to trigger them. Note: If you get lots of errors in Gia64-test-nat and Lia64-test-nat, it's almost certainly a sign of an old assembler. The GNU assembler used to encode previous-stack-pointer-relative offsets incorrectly. This bug was fixed on 21-Sep-2004 so any later assembler will be fine. ** Expected results on x86 Linux The following tests are expected to fail on x86 Linux: test-ptrace ** Expected results on x86-64 Linux The following tests are expected to fail on x86-64 Linux: run-ptrace-misc (see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18748 and http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18749) ** Expected results on PARISC Linux Caveat: GCC v3.4 or newer is needed on PA-RISC Linux. Earlier versions of the compiler failed to generate the exception-handling program header (GNU_EH_FRAME) needed for unwinding. The following tests are expected to fail on x86-64 Linux: Gtest-bt (backtrace truncated at kill() due to lack of unwind-info) Ltest-bt (likewise) Gtest-resume-sig (Gresume.c:my_rt_sigreturn() is wrong somehow) Ltest-resume-sig (likewise) Gtest-init (likewise) Ltest-init (likewise) Gtest-dyn1 (no dynamic unwind info support yet) Ltest-dyn1 (no dynamic unwind info support yet) test-setjmp (longjmp() not implemented yet) run-check-namespace (toolchain doesn't support HIDDEN yet) ** Expected results on HP-UX "make check" is currently unsupported for HP-UX. You can try to run it, but most tests will fail (and some may fail to terminate). The only test programs that are known to work at this time are: tests/bt tests/Gperf-simple tests/test-proc-info tests/test-static-link tests/Gtest-init tests/Ltest-init tests/Gtest-resume-sig tests/Ltest-resume-sig ** Expected results on PPC64 Linux "make check" should run with no more than 10 out of 24 tests failed. * Performance Testing This distribution includes a few simple performance tests which give some idea of the basic cost of various libunwind operations. After building the library, you can run these tests with the following commands: $ cd tests $ make perf * Contacting the Developers Please direct all questions regarding this library to: libunwind-devel@nongnu.org You can do this by sending a mail to libunwind-request@nongnu.org with a body of: subscribe libunwind-devel or you can subscribe and manage your subscription via the web-interface at: https://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=libunwind Or interact at the gihub page: https://github.com/libunwind/libunwind
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