Subj : Build instructions for Windows
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Aug 02 2021 20:28:18

  Re: Build instructions for Windows
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Aug 02 2021 02:16 pm

 >   Re: Build instructions for Windows
 >   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Aug 02 2021 12:13 pm
 >
 >  >> I'm not sure it would have enough information with a release build to
 >  >> identify the line of code causing a crash.
 >
 >  DM> It will. A debug build is not required to find the line of code where
 >  DM> an exception/crash occurs.
 >
 > I always thought a debug build was the only way to generate debug
 > information for that kind of thing.  But after thinking about it, I think
 > Visual Studio can build .pdb files with source code information for a
 > release build as well?

Yes. There will be some information lost (like parameter values?) and optimization may do some strange things when stepping through the code, but you can still use the debugger with a release build.
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