[Interest] Generate pdb for qmake.exe on Windows

Joerg Bornemann joerg.bornemann at qt.io
Fri Dec 11 18:19:24 CET 2020


On 12/11/20 5:15 PM, Adam Light wrote:

>      > Is it possible to build Qt in such a way that debugging symbols for
>      > qmake itself are generated?
> 
>     Not out of the box. Edit qmake/Makefile in your build directory and
>     - add /Zi to CFLAGS_BARE
>     - add /DEBUG to LFLAGS
>     then run "nmake clean" and "nmake".
> 
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> But I don't see a qmake directory in my build directory. Did you mean 
> the qtbase\qmake directory in my build directory? I do have that one.

Yes, that one.

> Isn't qmake.exe created by configure.exe itself? Or is it built once by 
> configure.exe and then rebuilt when building the rest of Qt?

There shouldn't be a configure.exe in 5.12.


Joerg


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