Symbolicate a Crash Dump

Turn a native VS Code crash dump (.dmp) into a readable backtrace with method names using electron-minidump.

VS Code team members only. Symbol files for internal Electron, Insiders, and Stable builds live in a private-adjacent release repo. A macOS or Linux device is required — electron-minidump does not run on Windows.

Prerequisites

• A crash dump file (*.dmp). See Creating a crash report below if you don't have one yet.
• A global install of electron-minidump:

  npm install -g electron-minidump
  

• For Insiders/Stable symbols, an authenticated GitHub CLI (gh auth status) with access to the private microsoft/vscode-electron-prebuilt repo.

Procedure

1. Run an initial symbolication pass