How to symbolicate PLCrashReports for OS X Apps

Question

I've added PLCrashReporter to my OS X application and am successfully saving the crash dumps to a server. However, plcrashutil does not appear to symbolicate even with the .app and .dSYM in the same directory as both plcrashutil and the crash file.

I also tried following the instructions in TN 2123 for using gdb to get the address and it fails to give a source line for the symbols reported in the crash file.

Answer 1

plcrashutil does not symbolicate, it just creates a crash file in the standard format. You'll need to use symbolicatecrash.pl from Xcode to symbolicate the report.

There is a patched version of symbolicatecrash.pl, which fixes a few bugs, available here: https://github.com/TheRealKerni/QuincyKit/tree/develop/server/local

Please note, that PLCrashReporter currently does not work correctly on Intel 64Bit architecture!

But a new version with support for 64Bit is being worked on from the PLCrashReporter developers in cooperation with HockeyApp. See http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-04-27-plcrashreporter-and-unwinding-the-stack-with-dwarf.html and http://www.hockeyapp.net/blog/2012/4/27/mac-os-x-sandbox-support-is-coming.html