[Development] [Windows] State of the Qt6 natvis file

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 21/02/25 19:00, Philippe ha scritto:
> /You can't just copy and use the file because of the "##NAMESPACE##:: 
> everywhere/
> You can find/replace this token all over the file. Easy and it works 
> (using Visual Studio).

Considering PDB has support for embedding natvis files, they should be 
patched and embedded when building Qt itself. Alas, it seems that this 
isn't possible using CMake APIs, but maybe just passing the right 
options to the linker works...?

https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/16874

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/natvis-add-natvis-to-pdb?view=msvc-170


I'd file a suggestion on the task tracker.


Thanks,
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Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer
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