[Interest] Unable to build with CONFIG+=debug due to missing libraries

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 28/02/15 15:36, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi Nikos,
>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com
> <mailto:realnc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         qmake CONFIG+=debug
>         make
>         ...
>         make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'libQt5Widgetsd.a'
>
>     Is this a bug, or intended on Windows?
>
>
> Thats because windows has two separate C runtime dll's, one for release
> and one for debug and you cannot mix them in an application.

I'm not trying to mix them. I just want to compile my code with debug 
symbols so that I can use gdb. I've been doing this for ages with 
mingw32 using "-g". AFAIK, the C runtime library got nothing to do with it.

Frankly, this doesn't make much sense to me.