http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46686
--- Comment #9 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-11-09 20:13:09 UTC --- (In reply to comment #8) > I thought that fork, exec, and pipe, which are necessary for starting and > interacting with the addr2line process are not supported on mingw? I just asked Kai. _exec, _pipe and _dup2 are supported, but fork() is not. However, Kai suggests to use FILE *__cdecl _popen(const char *_Command,const char *_Mode) with _Mode = "rb". One can then read from the stream. See also: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/96ayss4b%28v=vs.80%29.aspx