[CMake] Separate compiler and linker pdb

[Yuri Timenkov]

This is a limitation of CMake. There is a discussion at
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11899

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Michele Santullo
<michele.santullo at larian.com> wrote:
> Hello, we recently converted our project to cmake but for some reason, as we
> generate for VS 2008 on Windows, we get the same path for both the compiler
> and the linker generated pdb files.
>
> The path is something like ..../bin/Debug/Project.pdb for both, so they
> overwrite each other causing various errors. If I pass the /Fd switch to the
> compiler, cmake just keeps the old path and appends the new one to the
> command line parameters, confusing the VS IDE and causing a full rebuild
> every time we build.
>
> Is there a solution to produce two different files?
> Could it be caused by some error in my cmake files? The only settings about
> paths I can think of are:
>
> set( CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/../bin )
> set( CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/../lib )
>
> if(MSVC)
>        set(PDB_SEARCH_PATHS "/PDBPATH")
>        SET(LNK_FLAGS_DEBUG "${LNK_FLAGS_DEBUG} ${PDB_SEARCH_PATHS}")
>        SET(LNK_FLAGS_RELEASE "${LNK_FLAGS_RELEASE} ${PDB_SEARCH_PATHS}")
>        SET(LNK_FLAGS_SHIPPING "${LNK_FLAGS_SHIPPING} ${PDB_SEARCH_PATHS}")
> endif(MSVC)
>
> Thanks,
> Michele
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