Re: [Boost-build] How to have linker find PDB files?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] How to have linker find PDB files?
From: Alexey Pakhunov (alexeypa_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-08 12:37:36

There was a discussion about this some time ago. BBv2 does not fully support
.PDB for MSVC. So /Z7 works, /Zi - not really.
http://lists.boost.org/boost-build/2009/04/21691.php

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Nathan Paul <nathanjpaul_at_[hidden]> 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
>
>
> On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:18:46 -0500, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>  On Saturday 30 May 2009 22:12:36 Nathan Paul wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have a prebuilt shared library built with the /Zi option using msvc.
>>> This
>>> generates two PDB files. I setup the library in the site-config.jam file
>>> as
>>> follows:
>>> lib mylib
>>>  : # No dependencies
>>>  : <variant>debug:<file>$(MYLIB_DEBUG_LIB)/libmylib.lib
>>>    <variant>release:<file>$(MYLIB_RELEASE_LIB)/libmylib.lib
>>>  : # No default build
>>>  : <include>$(MYLIB_INCLUDE)
>>>  ;
>>>
>>> When I build my project using this library I get linker warnings LNK4099.
>>> I'd like to be able to tell the linker about the location of the PDB
>>> files,
>>> but I don't know how. Although I can rebuild the prebuilt library with
>>> the
>>> /Z7 option instead of /Zi, I'd like to avoid it.
>>>
>>
>> I miss some context here. What is linker warning 4099, what does it say,
>> why
>> is it bad, and, most importantly -- what options to the linker should be
>> passed to make this warning go away?
>>
>> - Volodya
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Best regards,
 Alexey Pakhunov.