Tiger RFE 4593163 - "Tool to generate core files from JVM and analyze them" is being developed as part of hotspot workspace. On Windows, this feature requires "Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows". This component is available for download from

  http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/debugging/default.asp

Above URL redirects to

  http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/debugging/default.mspx

X86 version is at

  http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/debugging/installx86.mspx

IA-64 version is at

  http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/debugging/install64bit.mspx

AMD (x86_64) version is at

  http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/debugging/installAMDbeta.mspx

While installing these, we have to take "custom" installation option and install SDK folder as well. By default, SDK does *not* get installed. But, we need SDK to build our binaries.

These have to be installed in Windows tools area and the top level directory of the installation to be passed Windows hotspot build via WindbgHome variable.

Please refer to "Comments" section as well.

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