How do I install the SYMBOL files?

John Savill

January 8, 2000

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A. Symbol files are produced by the linker when a program is built, and are used to resolve global variables and function names in an executable.

  1. Create a directory on your machine called SYMBOLS
    mkdir c:winntsymbols

  2. Copy over the symbols from the NT installation CD ROM
    xcopy :SupportDebugi386 c:winntsymbols /s

  3. If you have any service pack symbols you should extract these to the same directory, e.g. for Service Pack 2
    SYM_400I -d c:winntsymbols

For more information see Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q148659

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