Re: [Boost-build] bjam and msvc PDB files destination directory?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] bjam and msvc PDB files destination directory?
From: Martin B. (0xCDCDCDCD_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-10 03:48:18

On 06.11.2010 16:43, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Thursday, November 04, 2010 12:51:34 Martin B. wrote:
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: bjam and msvc PDB files destination directory?
>> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:21:32 +0100
>> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
>> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.user
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Is it possible to tell bjam to put the generated PDB files (MSVC)
>> alongside the dll/lib files into the stage directory?
>>
>> Here's what I'm using so far: (Boost 1.44.0)
>> bjam.exe --build-type=complete runtime-link=shared variant=release
>> toolset=msvc-8.0 threading=multi debug-symbols=on debug-store=database
>> define=_SECURE_SCL=0 --with-regex
>>
>> Is there an additional option that I can pass on the command line to
>> have the (correctly generated) PDB files also copied into the stage
>> directory?
>
> Not at this time. You can only hack tools/build/v2/tools/package.jam to add
> <install-type>PDB everywhere where<install-type>SHARED_LIB or
> <install-type>STATIC_LIB is now written.
>

Thanks for this tip!

Any plans to include the PDBs in the staging directory in future versions?

cheers,
Martin