Win32 debug build (Re: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of ESC call ...)

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 12 of July 2013, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Friday 12 of July 2013, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at suse.com>
> wrote:
> > >         IMHO having a debug symbol build & up-load once per day would
> > > be incredibly useful :-) [ as would a windows debug symbol server for
> > > release product but ... ;-].
> >
> > I am not saying it would not be, I'm saying we are not there yet in
> > our deployment...
>
>  I can try switching Win-x86_6 to building and uploading debug builds right
> now, that's no problem. Now that there are several other Windows
> tinderboxes, Win-x86_6 does not serve any particular purpose, and it's one
> of the slower ones by now (heh, remember when it was called
> Win-x86_6_fast?).

 I turns out it's not as simple as --enable-debug to have a debug-enabled 
daily build. As far as I understand it, the debug info is in .pdb files, and 
those are not included in the .msi or .zip archives.

 Does somebody have a good idea how to actually provide a debug build for 
win32?

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak at suse.cz