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Re: Windows build symbol files?

 

I was not aware of that change, but I have made a test build if anyone
likes to testrun it.
This is master built with debug as the build type and the option enabled.

http://downloads.kicad-pcb.org/windows/testing/patched/kicad-patched-144-ddea4e11d-x86_64.exe
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 22:54, Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon-
>
> Am Do., 11. Okt. 2018 um 11:33 Uhr schrieb Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> These should be Release builds, so no debug information.
>
>
> OK.  Could we not strip the symbols in the linking to give a bit more information in the dump files?  Or does that incur a large penalty under windows?
>
>> The toplevel CMakeLists.txt complains if someone tries to build
>> RelWithDebInfo, Debug binaries are just massive and slow, and I have no
>> idea how well debugging of MSYS2 binaries actually works on Windows.
>
>
> I thought JP pushed a fix (BUILD_SMALL_DEBUG_FILES?) for the over-sized debug binaries on windows.
>
> Thanks!
> -S
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