[CMake] Packaging debug symbol files on Windows

[Andreas Pakulat]

Hi Nils,

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Nils Gladitz <nilsgladitz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/27/2015 03:46 PM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>
>> I've meanwhile also noticed that the default compiler flags that CMake
>> uses include the debug information in the dll itself (dll size is
>> doubled), so for now don't even have to have the separate pdb files
>> packaged anymore (in this case the pdb info is small enough to just keep
>> in the dll).
>>
>
> I am not entirely sure what you mean but CMake's default flags for the
> Visual Studio compiler when building "Debug" or "RelWithDebInfo" use /Zi
> (debug information in external pdb) rather than /Z7 (embedded debug
> information; no pdb is generated).
>
> Maybe your project replaces the default flags?


No Z7 or Zi anywhere in the CMake files and the generated makefiles include
/Zi. So I don't know why the dll's would be bigger and generate proper
backtrace information when analyzing a dump file but so it is and thats
fine with me for now.

Andreas
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