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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2013-12-02 16:29:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2013-12-02 16:32:41 (GMT) |
| commit | c0897cfad0c8f1c7671ecc8b24bbfd189a9237de (patch) | |
| tree | 6d21e290c724077ba6f7dd9c81a755444fc764c1 /Help/prop_tgt/PDB_NOTE.txt | |
| parent | 09c05f37cf6c0cba643492aa4a597d6d465a8f32 (diff) | |
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Help: Document PDB behavior w.r.t. static libraries explicitly (#14600)
Document PDB_NAME and PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY as applying only to shared
libraries and executables. Add an explicit note to explain why they
do not work for static libraries.
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diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/PDB_NOTE.txt b/Help/prop_tgt/PDB_NOTE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e55aba2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/prop_tgt/PDB_NOTE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +.. 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 compiler-generated program database files specified by the MSVC + ``/Fd`` flag are not the same as linker-generated program database + files and so are not influenced by this property. |