Symbol server in linux docker proget-5.3.21

jn_7742

We recently migrated from an older windows version of proget to the Linux docker version 5.3.21.

Around this time, a couple of steely-eyed developers noticed that symbols appeared to stop working. We were unable to find the issue.

I did find this gem from 2017 where it appeared that the symbol server was never implemented in the docker version: https://forums.inedo.com/topic/1908/symbols-server-with-docker-linux-container/4

Is this still the case?

Any RTFM pointers you might have?

atripp

Hello;

The best place to look to troubleshoot this would be the Symbol and Source Server documentation.

Symbol server does work in Linux, but just not with symbols in the "Microsoft PDB format" (which might be what you're referring to). It's fine for Portable PDB (which is the "new" format).

Unfortunately Microsoft seems to have totally abandoned the legacy (Microsoft PDB) format, and has not nor will not open-source the code or specifications required to read those files.

The only supported way is using PDBSTR.EXE, which is essentially a 20+ year old program that modern tools (including ProGet) embed. It can't run on Linux, only Windows.

We decided not to do some hacks (like use WINE) to run it, because there's less and less legacy usage each year.

Best,
Alana

jn_7742

But.....

As far as I understand, the portable PDB format doesn't support including the source code which we use for source stepping when debugging.

Does this mean that the linux version of proget does not support source stepping? Or do you guys have another way of making this work without Sourcelink or is Sourcelink the only option?

atripp

@jn_7742 unfortunately, Microsoft has also abandoned Source Server in favor of SourceLink, and they will not add Source Server support to Portable PDB files

Technically, ProGet's Source Server works on Linux, but since ProGet can't inject its Source Server urls into the .pdb files, it's impractical to use. I'll let you guess which 20+ year old program is required to inject Source Server metadata into Microsoft PDB files

Bottom line, you'll need to upgrade your processes to use SourceLink