2. In order to have the stage rule copy the PDB files, I added them as artifacts of the archive and link rules. Therefore, I also added a call to touch the PDB files and generate dummy empty files, for when <debug-store> is set to "object" or <debug-symbols> is set to "off". This seems a bit sloppy but I only actually use <debug-store>database, and I do not know how to declare rules with build artifacts that are conditional on build settings.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Ian Emmons <iemmons@bbn.com> wrote:

Volodya,

Once you've integrated and validated the change, it seems to me that it would make sense to make /Zi (<debug-store>database) the default symbols format.

Thanks,

Ian

On Jun 9, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

On Tuesday 09 June 2009 Michael Weber wrote:

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Nathan Paul <nathanjpaul@gmail.com> wrote:

LNK4099 is described at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b7whw3f3.aspx. It's bad because it means the object is linked as if there is no debug information. To make this warning go away, the PDB files would have to be in the linker's search path, but I don't know how to tell the linker that information.

Nathan

There is no search path for PDB files -- the reference to the PDB is
in the LIB file itself. The linker will find libmylib.pdb if it is
placed in the same directory as libmylib.lib.

The reference from Alexey,
http://lists.boost.org/boost-build/2009/04/21691.php, documents a
change you can make to msvc.jam in order to make boost.build generate
PDB files with the same name as the library, when using the Zi option
(<debug-store>database), rather than the default vc90.pdb name.

Michael,
I seem to have missed that post. Can you resend the changes in a diff format
(diff -u, svn diff, whatever), so that I can integrate it with the current
SVN HEAD?

Thanks,
Volodya

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