stackwalkerc - Windows single header stack walker in C (DbgHelp.DLL)

Features

• Can be used in C or C++ code
• Super simple API
• Single header library makes integration into projects easy and fast
• Overridable memory allocations and assertion
• Zero heap allocations in callstack function (sw_show_callstack)
• No extra header inclusions except lightweight stdbool.h and stdint.h for delclarations
• Reporting of loaded modules and symbol search paths of the executable
• Callstack reporting of other threads and processes
• Callstack reporting in system exceptions
• Does not depend on DbgHelp.DLL to be included with the executable, this library dynamically loads the DbgHelp.dll from common system paths

Usage

This is a single header library, so all you need is include the file in your source and you are good to go:

// SW_IMPL includes implementation as well, you can skip this if you only want the declarations
#define SW_IMPL
#include "stackwalker.h"

Optionally, you can override some base functionality like function visibility, assertion and malloc, before including stackwalkerc.h:

#define SW_API_DECL static  // declars everything as static so only visible to current translation unit
#define SW_ASSERT(e)  MyAssert(e)       // override assert
#define SW_MALLOC(size)  MyMalloc(size) // override default stdc malloc
#define SW_FREE(ptr) MyFree(ptr)        //  override default stdc free
#define SW_IMPL
#include "stackwalker.h"

The API usage is super simple. There is more functionality like listing symbol search paths and loaded modules, for more detailed example, check out example.cpp for details.

static void callstack_entry(const sw_callstack_entry* entry, void* userptr)
{
    printf("\t%s(%d): %s\n", entry->line_filename, entry->line, entry->und_fullname);
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) 
{
    sw_callbacks callbacks = {
        .callstack_entry = callstack_entry
    };
    sw_context* stackwalk = sw_create_context_capture(SW_OPTIONS_ALL, callbacks, NULL);
    if (!stackwalk) {
        puts("ERROR: stackwalk init");
        return -1;
    }
    sw_show_callstack(stackwalk, NULL); // Second parameter NULL means that stackwalker should resolve for current thread
    sw_destroy_context(g_stackwalk);
    return 0;
}

To build the example, just make sure you have the right compiler flags (build debug symbols) and also link with Version.lib. The main API will be loaded dyamically from dbghelp.dll in common system paths (see sw__init_internal to see the search paths for the DLL file):

MSVC:

cd example
cl /Od /Zi Version.lib example.cpp

Clang (win):

cd example 
clang -g -O0 -lVersion example.cpp -o example.exe

Acknowledgments

Almost all of the Windows API usage for StackWalk are taken from StackWalker project by Jochen Kalmbach. For detailed information on how to use the API, read the Kalmbach's article on CodeProject.
This is actually a much more simplified (and improved imo) and straight-to-the-point version of StackWalker library.
This project only supports msvc2015+/clang(windows) compilers, if you prefer C++ API or want support for older Visual studio versions, check out Kalmbach's StackWalker library mentioned above.

License (BSD 2-clause)

Copyright 2021 Sepehr Taghdisian. All rights reserved.

https://github.com/septag/stackwalker.c

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