README_breakpad.md

Breakpad is an open source crash reporting system.

The breakpad-specific parts in the Natron source code are enabled by adding CONFIG+=enable-breakpad to the qmake options.

It consists in:

• breakpadpro.pri: breakpad-specific additions to Project.pro)
• breakpadclient.pri: included by global.pri
• BreakpadClient: the breakpad client library used by CrashReporter and CrashReporterCLI
• CrashReporter: the crash reporter executable (GUI version, monitors crashes by Natron)
• CrashReporterCLI: the crash reporter executable (command-line version, monitors crashes by NatronRenderer)
• libs/google-breakpad: a submodule that points to https://github.com/NatronGitHub/google-breakpad which is a fork of https://github.com/google/breakpad

There are several issues with breakpad, see:

• NatronGitHub#219
• NatronGitHub#145
• NatronGitHub#143

TODO:

• fork https://github.com/google/breakpad
• checkout the version from Sep 6, 2015 (https://github.com/google/breakpad/commit/2d450f312b4abf567f6fc82b6cb66d39fe64f08f, or maybe https://github.com/google/breakpad/commit/3f4d090d70c3f5fbeb9b6e646a079631f1ebf05b which is the last version on https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/google-breakpad)
• re-apply local changes, including MinGW fixes
• test