[Qt-creator] Slow cdb

[Peter Kümmel]

On 04.06.2013 10:27, David Schulz wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> the warning could result from using the Microsoft Symbol Server.
> The problem is that the cdb tries to get all your symbols from this server.
> What results in some overhead for all the symbols which are not
> available. For Example the whole Qt and QtCreator libraries.
>
> If you have a Creator checkout from the 2.8 branch you schould be able
> to add a symbol cache to the symbol paths for the cdb in the options
> under Debugger -> CDBPaths -> Symbol Paths -> Insert... -> Symbol Cache...
> It is important that you insert the cache before the symbol server
> otherwise the symbols wouldn't get cached and read before the server is
> contacted.
>
> If you are using an older QtCreator add the symbolcache manually. The
> setting can be found under Options -> Debugger -> CDB -> Paths -> Symbol
> Paths -> Edit... in versions < 2.8.
>
> For Example:
> cache*C:\dev\symbolcache
>
> srv*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
>
>
> You should also remove the folder from the path with srv*. Otherwise The
> symbols from the server would be cached in two places.
>
> BR David

Great! Seems this solves the issue.

But I couldn't test with Creator and qbs, because 2.8/qbs build is broken:

     ..\diffeditoreditable.cpp': No such file or directory

Peter