Comments on: Valgrind on Windows?

By: Eric B.

Eric B. — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:44:58 +0000

Windows users also currently have the option of running Microsoft’s free Application Verifier:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c4a25ab9-649d-4a1b-b4a7-c9d8b095df18

that’s just as easy to use as Valgrind and provides a lot of the basic memcheck features. And Microsoft is actively updating App Verifier. So while Valgrind on Windows would be cool, I’m not sure if it’ll ever really be worth the effort.

By: Mediocrebeing

Mediocrebeing — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:12:53 +0000

While Windows is much much more widely-used, only a tiny fraction of Windows users are developers and a small fraction of developers write C programs. In comparison, a good fraction of Linux users are C developers for whom valgrind is designed.

By: Wayne B

Wayne B — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:03:49 +0000

“it’s worth addressing a* much, much more* widely-used platform: Windows”

- Fixed that for ya.

By: Tom Hughes

Tom Hughes — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:55:09 +0000

There are still some significant problems running things under wine with valgrind, at least on some linux distributions.

I believe Ubuntu may work better but certainly on Fedora there are still problems relating to address space issues and where things get placed.