[vtkusers] VTK 6.1 RC1 and .PDB files

[David E DeMarle]

Can you try adding a /Z7 to VTK's compiler flags and see if this is OK for
your use?

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/958x11bc.aspx


David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:49 AM, ianl <ilindsay at insigniamedical.co.uk>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have an issue with the Visual Studio 2012 (VS11) build of VTK 6.1 RC1. We
> are doing both 32 and 64 bit builds, with BUILD_SHARED_LIBS turned off
> (i.e.
> set to build static libraries).
>
> It would appear that the INSTALL project does not copy the Visual Studio
> Program Database (.PDB) files for the debug builds (32 bit and 64 bit).
> This
> results in a large number of build warnings when building projects using
> VTK. I believe this has been the case for some time (there is even a call
> open on Mantis - 12005 from a while ago, but this was never addressed). In
> the past, I have been able to get away with just copying the .PDB files
> into
> the install directory alongside the .lib files. This no longer seems to
> work
> for me as I get a large number of warnings relating to vc110.pdb:
>
> 1>vtkCommonCore-6.1.lib(vtkAbstractArray.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB
> 'vc110.pdb' was not found with
> 'vtkCommonCore-6.1.lib(vtkAbstractArray.obj)'; linking object as if no
> debug
> info
> 1>vtkCommonCore-6.1.lib(vtkArrayCoordinates.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB
> 'vc110.pdb' was not found with
> 'vtkCommonCore-6.1.lib(vtkArrayCoordinates.obj)'; linking object as if no
> debug info
>
> ...etc. for several pages.
>
> I have tried not copying the .PDB files at all - interestingly, this
> results
> in no warnings for ITK which we also use, but quite a large number of
> warnings for VTK (as you would probably expect as it is a debug build). I
> also tried finding the vc110.pdb file manually, but it is actually in
> several sub directories under the build and each version is different with
> the same file name, so I gave up on that avenue of investigation.
>
> I have not yet tried this with the RC2 version which has just come out, but
> there does not seem to be any mention of a fix for this specific issue.
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated as a large number of warnings can
> hide potentially more important issues. I am reluctant to just turn the
> warning off as this seems like hiding the issue and may hide things that we
> should be fixing at our end.
>
> Thanks
> Ian Lindsay
>
>
>
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