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Hi, I am wondering why pdb file are not installed with a library target in MS VS2017 generated projects when building the Debug config variant?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is this relay necessary:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre class="lang-cpp prettyprint" style="margin-top: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; width: auto; max-height: 600px; overflow: auto; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); color: rgb(57, 51, 24); word-wrap: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; white-space: inherit;" class="">install(FILES $<TARGET_PDB_FILE:${TARGET_NAME}> DESTINATION bin OPTIONAL)
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