<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Scott Aron Bloom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott.bloom@onshorecs.com" target="_blank">scott.bloom@onshorecs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At some point in the 2.8 lifecycle, the choice was made to no longer copy the .pdb files on windows builds with the .lib that is generated.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I found a note somewhere, that there was “good” reasoning for it.. And in general, I agree, for many applications you don’t need the pdb files for static libraries.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, if the target of your project IS a static library that you supply to customers for integration into their toosl, you NEED to supply the pdb otherwise they are stuck getting the “pdb not found” warning message.</p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>FWLIW, here's how I handle it:</div><div><br></div><div>a) Provide INSTALL_PDB option for my project which defaults to ON for Windows </div><div><br></div><div>b) track which pdb files might be available by updating install_bin_pdb and install_modules_pdb with targets that need to be copied</div>
<div><br></div><div>e.g., for some executable target named by the pgm variable:</div><div><br></div><div>SET(install_bin_pdb ${install_bin_pdb} ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/${pgm}.pdb)<br></div><div><br></div><div>c) with my other install logic</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>IF(INSTALL_PDB)</div><div>  INSTALL(FILES ${install_bin_pdb}</div><div>          DESTINATION bin</div><div>          CONFIGURATIONS RelWithDebInfo Debug)</div><div><br></div><div>  INSTALL(FILES ${install_modules_pdb}</div>
<div>          DESTINATION modules</div><div>          CONFIGURATIONS RelWithDebInfo Debug)</div><div>ENDIF()</div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there any hope chance of bringing this back?<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
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Scott<u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
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