"binary was not built with debug information " warning meaning in mfc application?

windows visual-studio-2010 visual-c++ mfc media-player
vasanth kumar picture vasanth kumar · Oct 4, 2012 · Viewed 29.2k times · Source

I am getting the following Warning when i run my Windows Application(MFC) in Windows 7.

'XXX.exe': Loaded 'C:\2010\Debug\bin\plugins\control\libhotkeys_plugin.dll', Binary was not built with debug information.

Please Help Me out.Thank You

Answer

vikky picture vikky · Oct 4, 2012

It seems that your binary was build in Release mode

Now there are two ways which you can follow....

  • build the binary with "Debug" configuration

  • change the project settings so that a Program Database file (PDB) is generated in the release mode.

    Now you can generate PDB from the property window...

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