README.md

libdtrace-rs

Rust bindings for DTrace.

Requirements

• Git for Windows
• Rust
• Build Tools for Visual Studio
  • Choose "Desktop development with C++" while installing.
  • Add C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin to PATH

Compiling

1. Setup requirements for bindgen
2. Open an powershell and set the execution policy

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned –Scope Process

3. Run cargo build

Running

In order to run examples and tests a few more steps are required.

1. Download DTrace kernel driver.
2. Enable tracing by running the following command in an elevated terminal

   bcdedit /set dtrace ON
   

3. Set the _NT_SYMBOL_PATH as follows

_NT_SYMBOL_PATH=srv*C:\symbols*https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

4. Create the symbols directory at C:\symbols
5. Run cargo run --example <example_name> to run an example or cargo test to run tests.