Why is Visual Studio 2010 not able to find/open PDB files?

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HamidRezaHamidiEsfahani picture HamidRezaHamidiEsfahani · Jan 27, 2011 · Viewed 185.4k times · Source

I am trying to use OpenCV in VS 2010. I am an amateur, and I am learning first steps from the OpenCV wiki. However, when trying to debug my project, I get the following errors:

'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernellbase.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file

I have those files in the right directory, so why can't it open them? What should I do to fix the problem?

Answer

seanlitow picture seanlitow · Nov 15, 2011

First change the following parameters:

Tools -> Options -> Debugging -> Symbols -> Server -> Yes

Then press Ctrl+F5 and you will see amazing things.

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