[CMake] Separate compiler and linker pdb

[Michele Santullo]

Hello, thanks for your reply. I saw that page already, and I understand 
cmake needs to work around other people's mistakes, so the fix is not an 
easy one.
My doubt is not about setting a specific path, but about the pdbs ending 
up in the same spot. Is there any known problem with the pdbs 
overwriting each other? Or is that safe? Couldn't you just call them 
*.compiler.pdb and *.linker.pdb as a temporary fix, and leave to the 
user the burden of picking up the relevant ones?

Michele

On 21/06/2012 19:10, Yuri Timenkov wrote:
> This is a limitation of CMake. There is a discussion at
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11899
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Michele Santullo
> <michele.santullo at larian.com>  wrote:
>> Hello, we recently converted our project to cmake but for some reason, as we
>> generate for VS 2008 on Windows, we get the same path for both the compiler
>> and the linker generated pdb files.
>>
>> The path is something like ..../bin/Debug/Project.pdb for both, so they
>> overwrite each other causing various errors. If I pass the /Fd switch to the
>> compiler, cmake just keeps the old path and appends the new one to the
>> command line parameters, confusing the VS IDE and causing a full rebuild
>> every time we build.
>>
>> Is there a solution to produce two different files?
>> Could it be caused by some error in my cmake files? The only settings about
>> paths I can think of are:
>>
>> set( CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/../bin )
>> set( CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/../lib )
>>
>> if(MSVC)
>>         set(PDB_SEARCH_PATHS "/PDBPATH")
>>         SET(LNK_FLAGS_DEBUG "${LNK_FLAGS_DEBUG} ${PDB_SEARCH_PATHS}")
>>         SET(LNK_FLAGS_RELEASE "${LNK_FLAGS_RELEASE} ${PDB_SEARCH_PATHS}")
>>         SET(LNK_FLAGS_SHIPPING "${LNK_FLAGS_SHIPPING} ${PDB_SEARCH_PATHS}")
>> endif(MSVC)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michele
>> --
>>
>> Powered by www.kitware.com
>>
>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
>> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>>
>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at:
>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ
>>
>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>> http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake