'cannot find or open the pdb file' Visual Studio C++ 2013

Georges Farah picture Georges Farah · Feb 7, 2015 · Viewed 209.1k times · Source

I just downloaded VS 2013 Community Edition and I wrote my first app. When I run it it shows in the output section:

'ConsoleApplication1.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Users\Toshiba\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\ConsoleApplication1\Debug\ConsoleApplication1.exe'. Symbols loaded.
'ConsoleApplication1.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'ConsoleApplication1.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'ConsoleApplication1.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\KernelBase.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'ConsoleApplication1.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msvcp120d.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'ConsoleApplication1.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msvcr120d.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
The program '[11196] ConsoleApplication1.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

What is the problem? I checked my code on many sites so I know that the problem is not in my code. Can anyone help me?

Answer

Alesson picture Alesson · May 29, 2015

Try go to Tools->Options->Debugging->Symbols and select checkbox "Microsoft Symbol Servers", Visual Studio will download PDBs automatically.

PDB is a debug information file used by Visual Studio. These are system DLLs, which you don't have debug symbols for.[...]

See Cannot find or open the PDB file in Visual Studio C++ 2010