CMake/Help/prop_tgt/PDB_NOTE.txt
Brad King c0897cfad0 Help: Document PDB behavior w.r.t. static libraries explicitly (#14600)
Document PDB_NAME and PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY as applying only to shared
libraries and executables.  Add an explicit note to explain why they
do not work for static libraries.
2013-12-02 11:32:41 -05:00

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.. note::
This property does not apply to STATIC library targets because no linker
is invoked to produce them so they have no linker-generated ``.pdb`` file
containing debug symbols.
The compiler-generated program database files specified by the MSVC
``/Fd`` flag are not the same as linker-generated program database
files and so are not influenced by this property.