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jfrimmel / cargo-valgrind

A cargo subcommand, that runs valgrind and displays its output in a helpful manner.
https://crates.io/crates/cargo-valgrind
Apache License 2.0
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Remove support for Windows #101

Open jfrimmel opened 1 month ago

jfrimmel commented 1 month ago

Unless I'm mistaken, there is currently no suitable valgrind-binary available for Windows. Therefore I want to ask, whether this project should simply drop support for Windows at this point. Windows-binaries could either be entirely removed (and the code could even be un-compile-able on Windows) or the tool would simply forward to cargo <cmd> without any interventions (but this could trick somebody in thinking, that the code is fine, whereas in reality there are no checks done at all).

There was a project, that aims to make Valgrind working on Windows, but the last code change was done over 10 years ago. The project status is told to be pre-alpha and the last update to an open issue is from 2015. It is unclear to me, if it supports the XML-output required for cargo-valgrind, although the Windows port shares some of the codebase, hence it might be possible, although the CLI is nowhere documented. Therefore I don't think, that this is used on windows at the moment.

I'd like to hear if anyone actually uses this tool on Windows. If so, please comment under this issue.

AlexanderSchuetz97 commented 2 weeks ago

I guess you could use drmemory instead on windows, it does mostly the same things, but well on windows. However that may aswell be its own crate.

jfrimmel commented 1 week ago

Thank you for your feedback. I'm not familiar with Dr. Memory, but I don't think, that it is "compatible" with valgrind (in the sense, that it supports the same flags and the same XML-based output format). If it is not compatible, it would be better to support it in a different tool, since cargo valgrind not calling valgrind may be confusing.

AlexanderSchuetz97 commented 1 week ago

It was just a thought, I mainly user dr memory to find handle leaks. If this is just pure valgrind then drop windows support. Today I was looking for a way to automate this using dr memory. I knew of your crate and am using it for linux stuff....