[Interest] Stepping into Qt sources (Qt 5.14, MinGW 64-bit)

[Thiago Macieira]

On Saturday, 25 January 2020 10:53:23 PST Dmitriy Purgin wrote:
> With version 5.14 I can't debug into the Qt sources anymore, although I've
> installed both Qt Debug Information Files and Sources using the online
> installer. I don't think it actually installed the debug information files
> though because the online installer shows "0.00 bytes" next to the marked
> "Qt Debug Information Files" when I start it again. After a quick look in
> the installation folder, I don't see anything related to debugging. I would
> expect d-suffixed libraries, enormously big .libs or .dlls, or something
> .pdb-like.
> 
> Is there anything I miss? How can I debug into Qt 5.14 without having to
> compile it myself, just as it worked before?

You're not missing anything. The MinGW binaries now match the Linux ones: no 
debug libraries anymore.

If you want to step into Qt source, compile from source with debug 
information.

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