debug libs (Re: KDE/kdelibs/cmake/modules)

[William A. Hoffman]

At 09:07 AM 3/2/2006, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>William A. Hoffman schrieb:
>>At 07:07 AM 3/2/2006, David Faure wrote:
>>  
>>>On Wednesday 01 March 2006 21:58, Joseph Wenninger wrote:
>>>    
>>>>I think most of the time you could use debug kdelibs, which are compiled against a non debug qt, since most bugs are probably kdelibs related, not qt. During KDE 3.x development I usually used a release built of qt.
>>>>      
>>>Well that's really up to everyone. I strongly prefer using a debug build of qt myself,
>>>being able to step through qt sometimes helps understanding a kde bug.
>>>    
>>
>>On windows, I don't think this will work.  It is difficult to mix release and debug
>>libraries with the Microsoft compiler.   
>>  
>Are there any experience with the mingw compiler (g++) in this area ? Does it have the same problems ?

I don't think it will have the same problems as the debug format is different than
the one used by MSVC.  I think the windows run time libraries it links to are always release.

-Bill