Debug Mode Libraries on Windows

[Gerald E Dalley]

Thanks for the suggestion.  With a little more work, I finally figured
out the problem.  When I installed VTK, I copied the DLLs into the
windows/system directory.  When I compiled the program, the libraries went
to load the DLLs.  They gave preference to the ones in windows/system
instead of vtkbin/Debug/lib.  Since those *old* DLLs were out of sync with
the recompiled ones, the debugger chose to ignore the debug data.  By
copying the new DLLs to windows\system, it now loads the proper version of
the DLLs, and thus the debugging info is not disabled.

--Gerald Dalley
  dalleyg at ee.eng.ohio-state.edu

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Patric Weis wrote:

> Hi Gerald!
> 
> Try to run nmake from vtkbin\Debug\vtkdll instead of vtkbin\Debug! This works
> well on my system (Win NT 4.0 SP 6a, VC++ 6.0). After having rebuilt the DLL
> you have to copy it to your system directory.
> 
> Hope it helps!
> 
> Patric Weis
> Patric.Weis at Mycrona.de
> 
> 
> Gerald E Dalley wrote:
> 
> > I recently did a rebuild of VTK on my system (VTK 2.4) and suddenly, all
> > of my debugging ability of the library files was lost, e.g. I can no
> > longer trace into methods and functions shipped with VTK.  I have tried
> > the following to remedy the situation, with no success:
> >         1) Rerun nmake from the vtkbin\Debug directory (does nothing, even
> >            if I modify source files)
> >         2) Delete the *.obj files and the *.lib, *.dll, *.exp, *.ilk,
> >            and *.pdb (from vtkbin\Debug\lib and vtkbin\Debug\vtkdll\obj
> >            directories).  Do #1.  Makes all files non-debuggable.
> >         3) Completely wipe out the vtkbin directory.  Rerun pcmaker.  Do
> >            #1. Same results as #2.
> >         4) Do #3 again.  Edit the makefile to remove the /D "NDEBUG" in
> >            the CPP_PROJ settings.  Do #1.  Same results as #2.
> >         5) Try relinking another project that had debugging working.  Same
> >            results as #2.
> > Does anyone know how to get the debugging turned back on for VC++ 6.0?
> >
> > --Gerald Dalley
> >   dalleyg at ee.eng.ohio-state.edu
> >
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