Code profiling / performance analysis tools for Windows CE/Mobile

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Fabio Ceconello picture Fabio Ceconello · Nov 2, 2008 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

What tools do you know, other than those in Visual Studio, to analyze performance bottlenecks in a Windows CE/Mobile application? I'm looking for something like AQTime for CE/Mobile, to profile C/C++ applications compiled to native code.

Answer

ctacke picture ctacke · Dec 1, 2008

Windows CE supports the Remote Call Profiler (if the OEM added support for it) out of the box. WinMo images, I believe, typically have support already in the images for it. For CE, you need to the IMAGEPROFILER environment variable set (usnder the project properties).

What's not clear in MSDN is how to instrument an app that isn't built with Platform Builder, but it's actually pretty simple. You have to add the /callcap swith to the compiler command line and add cecap.lib to your linker settings.

Of course you'll need a tool to capture and display the profiler data. For that you can use the evaluation version of Platform Builder (5.0 or 6.0) (the eval is free) or eVC 4.0 (also free).

For more info on the profiler's usage, Sue Loh from the CE core team has blogged a bit about it.

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