Subject: Re: [boost] [build][msvc] create PDBs
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-23 11:47:49
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Daniela Engert <dani_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> For various reasons I always preferred to have debug info separate from the
> binaries. Unfortunately, emitting debug info to PDBs doesn't work so well,
> in particular when it comes to static libs and precompiled headers. Because
> of that I tried to rectify this and created a patch against msvc.jam.
> (see ticket #8889 https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8889)
>
> This (and a tiny script to collect all generated PDBs into the library
> directory) got me there:
>
> boost_log_setup-vc120-mt-1_54.dll 1.158.656
> boost_log_setup-vc120-mt-1_54.lib 24.244
> boost_log_setup-vc120-mt-1_54.pdb 123.055.104
> boost_log_setup-vc120-mt-gd-1_54.dll 3.206.144
> boost_log_setup-vc120-mt-gd-1_54.lib 24.408
> boost_log_setup-vc120-mt-gd-1_54.pdb 219.220.992
> boost_log-vc120-mt-1_54.dll 486.400
> boost_log-vc120-mt-1_54.lib 241.174
> boost_log-vc120-mt-1_54.pdb 10.857.472
> boost_log-vc120-mt-gd-1_54.dll 1.071.616
> boost_log-vc120-mt-gd-1_54.lib 242.278
> boost_log-vc120-mt-gd-1_54.pdb 18.918.400
> libboost_log_setup-vc120-mt-1_54.lib 188.671.120
> libboost_log_setup-vc120-mt-1_54.pdb 132.616.192
> libboost_log_setup-vc120-mt-gd-1_54.lib 220.099.308
> libboost_log_setup-vc120-mt-gd-1_54.pdb 132.837.376
> libboost_log-vc120-mt-1_54.lib 53.565.446
> libboost_log-vc120-mt-1_54.pdb 7.942.144
> libboost_log-vc120-mt-gd-1_54.lib 32.516.250
> libboost_log-vc120-mt-gd-1_54.pdb 8.114.176
>
> Boost.Log was chosen for exhibition only.
> All files were built with debug-symbols=on debug-store=database. Link-time
> code generation was enabled for all release builds, too.
It looks like static libs contain debug info anyway as they are always
larger than the generated pdb.