[Development] debug symbols for official Qt releases

[Gunnar Roth]

>On 2016-03-01, Milian Wolff <milian.wolff at kdab.com> wrote:
>> b) Apparently there are never any debug symbols shipped for the release build
>> fo Qt. Having debug symbols even for a release build is crucial for a good
>> profiling experience. Could we maybe get release builds in the future with -
>> force-debug-info to improve this situation? I'm aware that one can get some
>> sense out of a profiler when only the end-level application is build in that
>> way, but one can often get much more insight when the stack below (or even in-
>> between for the eventloop and signal/slot magic) also gets annotated stack
>> frames. Right now, I have to suggest people to build Qt themselves for the
>> sole purpose of profiling... A pity!
>
>This would be amazing. Also for getting better backtraces from crashes
>at users systems.

I normally use release build always even for debugging. It were also nice if Qt
would set the enhanced pdb option to get better release debugging experience,
/d2Zi+ option for vs2012 and /Zo for Vs2013 upd3 and VS2015.

As i have other reasons to always build Qt myself and maintain patches others than these,
i have no real problem with the current state, but would still be glad if pdb for release are build
and delivered with the enhanced pdb option.

Regards,
Gunnar Roth