Include debug (symbols) builds of photos/druntime?

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Manu reported this on 2018-05-02T00:14:45Z

Transferred from https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18817

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• Rainer Schuetze

Description

I'd really love it if the Windows DMD distribution would include debug (with symbols) builds of druntime+phobos. At least for the COFF libs (32/64).

I often find myself wanting to step into phobos or druntime code while debugging, but the libs have no symbols!

Just put 'd' on the end of the filenames.

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turkeyman commented on 2018-05-02T00:19:07Z

It might also need a command line arg to select which default library to use (parallel to the current crt options)?

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r.sagitario commented on 2018-05-07T06:18:40Z

The Visual D custom project type has the linker option to build a "private" version of the runtime with the options of the project, especially useful for creating a debug version. This is not available with the VC project system, though.

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turkeyman commented on 2018-05-07T18:14:35Z

Is there a reason not to include one in the windows install bundle? It would complement the standard windows runtime library distribution.