Creating a Visual Studio Project for Pintools (32-bit)
- Start Visual Studio 2010 and create a new Win32 Project.
- In the Win32 Application Wizard, select DLL for Application type, and tick Empty project in the Additional options.
- Create directory
Pin in the Solution folder and copy Pin framework here.
- Copy
Pin\source\tools\ManualExamples\inscount0.cpp to the Project folder. This is a sample Pintools file. Add the copied inscount0.cpp to the project.
- Set Active Configuration to Release.
- Add the following to the Additional Include Directories:
$(SolutionDir)Pin\source\include\pin;$(SolutionDir)Pin\source\include\pin\gen;$(SolutionDir)Pin\extras\xed2-ia32\include;$(SolutionDir)Pin\extras\components\include;%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)
- Add the following to the Additional Library Directories:
$(SolutionDir)Pin\ia32\lib;$(SolutionDir)Pin\ia32\lib-ext;$(SolutionDir)Pin\extras\xed2-ia32\lib;%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories)
- Add the following to the Preprocessor:
TARGET_WINDOWS
TARGET_IA32
HOST_IA32
- Set Enable C++ Exceptions to No, and set Runtime Library to Multi-threaded (/MT).
- Add the following to the Additional Dependencies in the Linker settings:
ntdll-32.lib
libxed.lib
pin.lib
pinvm.lib
libcmt.lib
libcpmt.lib
- Set Ignore All Default Libraries to Yes (/NODEFAULTLIB).
- Set Entry Point to Ptrace_DllMainCRTStartup@12.
- Add the following to the Additional Options of the Command Line linker option:
/EXPORT:main
Downloading&Building Sample Pintools for Visual Studio
- To download Sample Pintools Project created with the above settings click here [SkyDrive].
- Open the solution file in Visual Studio and set the active configuration to Release.
- Create directory
Pin in the Solution folder and copy Pin framework here.
- Copy
Pin\source\tools\ManualExamples\inscount0.cpp to the Project folder. This is a sample Pintools file.
- Build the project.
