CMake/Help/prop_tgt/PDB_NOTE.txt
Brad King fba51b096e MSVC: Add properties to configure compiler PDB files (#14762)
Since commit v2.8.12~437^2~2 (VS: Separate compiler and linker PDB files
2013-04-05) we no longer set /Fd with the PDB_NAME or PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
properties.  Those properties now exclusively handle linker PDB files.
Since STATIC libraries do not link their compiler PDB file becomes more
important.  Add new target properties "COMPILE_PDB_NAME[_<CONFIG>]" and
"COMPILE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY[_<CONFIG>]" to specify the compiler PDB
file location and pass the value to the MSVC /Fd option.
2014-02-26 09:34:38 -05:00

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.. note::
This property does not apply to STATIC library targets because no linker
is invoked to produce them so they have no linker-generated ``.pdb`` file
containing debug symbols.
The linker-generated program database files are specified by the
``/pdb`` linker flag and are not the same as compiler-generated
program database files specified by the ``/Fd`` compiler flag.
Use the |COMPILE_PDB_XXX| property to specify the latter.
This property is not implemented by the :generator:`Visual Studio 6`
generator.