Symbol Options: (How) Do They Work?

[mojomojomojo]

Very Sleepy has options for symbol loading.

• Symbol Search Path
• Symbol Cache Directory
• Symbol Server
• Use Symbol Server

If I look at how we're constructing a symbol search path string (profilergui.h) and compare it to the "reference" documentation, I am not unsure of how we intend to expose this behavior to the user.

The MS doc refers to two kinds of symbol directories:

• manually placed symbols
• symbol store (i.e. an infrastructure symbol server store; directory structure created by symstore.exe)

Is the symbol search path supposed to be a list of directories that are symbol server locations or locations for manually placed symbols? Based on what I see in the code, we're interpreting these directories as the former.

<symdir1>[;<symdir2>[;...]]*SRV*<cache>*<symserver>

Is the only way to specify multiple symbol stores to '*'-join the various symbol server paths together?

Also, would you expect the environment variables _NT_SYMBOL_PATH (and similar) to affect behavior of Very Sleepy?

Do you know how much this behavior has been tested?

[mojomojomojo]

Also, do you know if the appveyor environment has symstore.exe? The MS docs claim that it comes with "Debugging Tools for Windows".