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reply Tofu ninja <katemmons0 gmail.com> writes:
I am compiling with -m64 -shared -debug -g and a .pdb is 
generated but visual studio says the dll was not compiled with 
debug information, am I missing something or is this not 
supported?

DMD32 D Compiler v2.076.0
Dec 06 2017
parent reply Tofu ninja <katemmons0 gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 21:12:20 UTC, Tofu ninja wrote:

 I am compiling with -m64 -shared -debug -g and a .pdb is 
 generated but visual studio says the dll was not compiled with 
 debug information, am I missing something or is this not 
 supported?

 DMD32 D Compiler v2.076.0


Actually never mind, -gf worked....
Dec 06 2017
parent reply user1234 <user1234 12.12> writes:
On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 21:17:55 UTC, Tofu ninja wrote:

 On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 21:12:20 UTC, Tofu ninja wrote:

 I am compiling with -m64 -shared -debug -g and a .pdb is 
 generated but visual studio says the dll was not compiled with 
 debug information, am I missing something or is this not 
 supported?

 DMD32 D Compiler v2.076.0


 Actually never mind, -gf worked....


what is -gf ? it's not documented here 
https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html#switches
Dec 06 2017
parent Tofu ninja <katemmons0 gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 22:59:17 UTC, user1234 wrote:

 On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 21:17:55 UTC, Tofu ninja wrote:

 On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 21:12:20 UTC, Tofu ninja 
 wrote:

 I am compiling with -m64 -shared -debug -g and a .pdb is 
 generated but visual studio says the dll was not compiled 
 with debug information, am I missing something or is this not 
 supported?

 DMD32 D Compiler v2.076.0


 Actually never mind, -gf worked....


 what is -gf ? it's not documented here 
 https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html#switches


dmd has this in the help
-gf              emit debug info for all referenced types

I dont know why that made it work, I feel like -g should have 
still made it at least recognizable for a debugger but it didn't 
think it was compiled with debug info. My suspicion is it 
compiled debug info for the import .lib but not for the DLL 
itself and -gf forced it to do the dll too. But I haven't 
confirmed that.
Dec 07 2017