Re: [dpdk-dev] Generating Debug information in Windows using Clang (PDB files)

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 07:02:22PM +0100, Menon, Ranjit wrote:
>    Adham…
> 
>    I don’t think we debugged using clang compiled code for Hello world –
>    mainly because it was only a “helloworld” application and we didn’t
>    quite need any debugging!:-)
> 
> 
>    I found this link:
>    [1]http://blog.llvm.org/2017/08/llvm-on-windows-now-supports-pdb-debug.
>    html
> 
>    …which says to use the following:
> 
>     Here are two simple ways to test out this new functionality:
>     1. Have clang-cl invoke lld automatically
> 
>         clang-cl -fuse-ld=lld -Z7 -MTd hello.cpp
>     2. Invoke clang-cl and lld separately.
> 
>    clang-cl -c -Z7 -MTd -o hello.obj hello.cpp
> 
>    lld-link -debug hello.obj
> 
>    Can you try it with just the -Z7 option?
> 
> 
>    I’m also adding some persons from Microsoft to this thread, hoping they
>    can help…
> 
> 
>    +Harini +Omar +Jeffrey
> 
> 
>    ranjit m.
> 
Part of the issue may be that we use clang, rather than clang-cl on
windows.

/Bruce