hi all, question about crash/error reporting. How ...

# kotlin-native

[joshshin]

hi all, question about crash/error reporting. How do i get the proper dsym files for the shared module?
Added this to the gradle file of the shared module:

kotlin{
  targets.withType<KotlinNativeTarget> {
    binaries.all {
      freeCompilerArgs += "-Xadd-light-debug=enable"
    }
    binaries.withType<org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.plugin.mpp.Framework> {
      isStatic = true
    }
  }
}

I just hooked up my app to sentry and was testing things out, I see that I uploaded the dsym files, but everything's looking like this:

[joshshin]

I know there's CrashKios to help with this kind of thing, but I guess I was wondering if there was something wrong with my setup, or if symbolication is something that's still lacking

[kpgalligan]

Sentry doesn't work because you need to be able to send a custom exception report with function pointers (see what CrashKios is doing). I gave a talk about CrashKios at Droidcon SF last year and talked to the Sentry team at their booth, and spent a few hours that morning trying to get the Sentry client to work, but I failed. I don't know if the Sentry client has the ability to create the proper type of custom report. As far as Sentry is concerned, that screenshot above is the crash stack trace.

[kpgalligan]

Sorry, left out the conclusion to one part. "I don't know if the Sentry client has the ability to create the proper type of custom report." But! I also barely tried, and whoever I talked to at the booth didn't seem to understand what I was talking about. Not all clients work. Tried New Relic a couple weeks ago, and they also apparently don't expose the right sdk to handle full Kotlin stacks.

[joshshin]

ah, thank you. trying to get crashkios working with crashyltics now

[joshshin]

by any chance is the talk up online? went looking for it on youtube and didn't find anything

[joshshin]

oh my god, i just got crashkios to work with crashlytics.
holding back the tears.
thanks @kpgalligan and all the other touchlab folks, this library is a godsend

[kpgalligan]

The talk. Was mostly about kotlin libraries, but at 20:28 I start talking about CrashKiOS. At 21:54 I talk about Sentry, and how I was confident I would figure it out before leaving SF. Ha ha. Feels like that was years ago. https://www.droidcon.com/media-detail?video=380843862

[Paul Woitaschek]

@kpgalligan did you ever found a way to make it work?

[kpgalligan]

Sentry?

[Paul Woitaschek]

Yes

[kpgalligan]

I haven't tried since 2019. I did discuss it with somebody recently (last week I think) that was considering a PR, but I don't think they've started. The Sentry SDK looks like it's maybe expanded (since 2019) to support the kind of thing you'd need to do (send custom reports), but unless we have a need internally I don't think we'll be looking at it soon.