windows-rs support for Microsoft DIA SDK (Debug Interface Access)

[jeanga]

Hi !

I am willing to port existing code from C++ to Rust.
However, windows::Win32::System::Diagnostics::Debug exposes the dbghelp interfaces, I could not find the Microsoft DIA SDK (Debug Interface Access) interfaces.

Is there any plan to add these to windows-rs?
If so, how can I help?
If not, is #81 the only way to go?

Many thanks for windows-rs, it is precious to Windows developers switching to Rust.

[riverar]

@jeanga This should work today, if you drop in DIA SDK metadata. Let me write you a sample tomorrow, standby. (Redmond, WA time.)

[riverar]

@jeanga Got most of a sample written today after overcoming some metadata challenges. Will share tomorrow, thanks for your patience.

[riverar]

Thanks for your patience @jeanga.

Check out this sample: microsoft/windows-samples-rs#40

The high level overview is:

• Microsoft.Windows.WinmdGenerator reads in raw DIA SDK idl/headers and outputs Windows Metadata
• The windows crate takes in this metadata and generates the appropriate Rust code
• The sample app then simply adds the appropriate use declarations and calls DIA SDK APIs

What this sample doesn't show:

• Use of DIA SDK's NoRegCreate path (to avoid having to register msdia*.dll)
• Use of the pre-generated Windows APIs that come with the windows crate (currently blocked on The build macro redirects to pre-packaged Windows APIs #1338, will update asap)

Going to close this for now, but feel free to continue the discussion. Thanks!

[riverar]

Now uses pre-generated bindings.

[jeanga]

Just checked the sample! Thank you sooo much for the quick answer!
You ROCK!