Reading a .pdb file

If you mean PDB as in a “program database” that the debugger uses: PDB files contain data about a file such as an EXE or DLL that is used to aid in debugging. There are public interfaces that allow you to extract data from the file. See examples here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/jmstall/sample-code-for-pdb-2-xml-tool (Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2005/08/25/pdb2xml.aspx) http://www.codeproject.com/KB/bugs/PdbParser.aspx If … Read more

How do I use PDB files

PDB files map an assembly’s MSIL to the original source lines. This means that if you put the PDB that was compiled with the assembly in the same directory as the assembly, your exception stack traces will have the names and lines of the positions in the original source files. Without the PDB file, you … Read more

C# release version has still .pdb file

If you want to disable pdb file generation, you need to use the “Advanced build settings” dialog available in project properties after clicking the “Advanced…” button” located in the lower part of the Build tab. Set Output – Debug info: to None for release build configuration and no pdb files will be generated.

What is a PDB file?

A PDB file contains information for the debugger to work with. There’s less information in a Release build than in a Debug build anyway. But if you want it to not be generated at all, go to your project’s Build properties, select the Release configuration, click on “Advanced…” and under “Debug Info” pick “None”.

Preventing referenced assembly PDB and XML files copied to output

I wanted to be able to add and remove referenced assemblies in my primary application while avoiding the the need to maintain which files I needed to delete or exclude. I dug through Microsoft.Common.targets looking for something that would work and found the AllowedReferenceRelatedFileExtensions property. It defaults to .pdb; .xml so I explicitly defined it … Read more

How to generate gcc debug symbol outside the build target?

You need to use objcopy to separate the debug information: objcopy –only-keep-debug “${tostripfile}” “${debugdir}/${debugfile}” strip –strip-debug –strip-unneeded “${tostripfile}” objcopy –add-gnu-debuglink=”${debugdir}/${debugfile}” “${tostripfile}” I use the bash script below to separate the debug information into files with a .debug extension in a .debug directory. This way I can tar the libraries and executables in one tar file … Read more