1 oom_dump extracts useful information from Google Chrome OOM minidumps. 2 3 To build one needs a google-breakpad checkout 4 (http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/). 5 6 First, one needs to build and install breakpad itself. For instructions 7 check google-breakpad, but currently it's as easy as: 8 9 ./configure 10 make 11 sudo make install 12 13 (the catch: breakpad installs .so into /usr/local/lib, so you might 14 need some additional tweaking to make it discoverable, for example, 15 put a soft link into /usr/lib directory). 16 17 Next step is to build v8. Note: you should build x64 version of v8, 18 if you're on 64-bit platform, otherwise you would get a link error when 19 building oom_dump. Also, if you are testing against an older version of chrome 20 you should build the corresponding version of V8 to make sure that the type-id 21 enum have the correct values. 22 23 The last step is to build oom_dump itself. The following command should work: 24 25 cd <v8 working copy>/tools/oom_dump 26 scons BREAKPAD_DIR=<path to google-breakpad working copy> 27 28 (Additionally you can control v8 working copy dir, but the default should work.) 29 30 If everything goes fine, oom_dump <path to minidump> should print 31 some useful information about the OOM crash. 32 33 Note: currently only 32-bit Windows minidumps are supported. 34