How can I read a windows BSOD generated memory.dmp using C++

Question

I need to read information, code, flags, address, etc from a memory.dmp file generated from a windows BSOD through C++. The basic idea is that status info can be requested from a remote site and one of the requested pieces of information is some basic info from the last BSOD that occured on the machine thus I need to open the kernel/memory dump file through C++ (Im using MSVC 2005).

Answer 1

Start here, then realize using scripted commands in WinDBG is much easier.

Note: you only need WinDBG on the analysis machine, not the crashing one. You retrieve the minidump and analyse it externally. The only difficulty you will have is getting the right symbols - for Windows, Microsoft makes them available via their symbol servers, but applications that caused the crash may not supply the right symbols you need. IF they are you own applications causing the crash, get a symbol server and use it.