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8708 :: Stop clang from generating ilk and pdb files

• AmjadBHD (orginal) [2021-12-13T22:24:47+01:00] view original

  "nim c -r test.nim":

  
  clang.exe -c  -w -ferror-limit=3 -O3   -IC:\Users\User\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.6.0\lib -ID:\Amjad\AoC2021 -o C:\Users\User\nimcache\test_r\@mtest.nim.c.o C:\Users\User\nimcache\test_r\@mtest.nim.c
  Run

  nim c -r -d:danger test.nim:

  
  clang.exe -c  -w -ferror-limit=3   -IC:\Users\User\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.6.0\lib -ID:\Amjad\AoC2021 -o C:\Users\User\nimcache\test_d\@mtest.nim.c.o C:\Users\User\nimcache\test_d\@mtest.nim.c
  Run

  the difference is the -O3 in release build. clang, on Windows in the debug build creates test.ilk (3272 kB) and test.pdb (6236 KB), vcc (msvc) and gcc don't.

  How do I disable this ?

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• Araq (orginal) [2021-12-14T09:17:48+01:00] view original

  I don't know, if annoying, I would simply delete these files after a build.

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• AmjadBHD (orginal) [2021-12-14T16:00:30+01:00] view original

  I would simply delete these files after a build.

  What, that's even more annoying.

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• Demos (orginal) [2021-12-16T05:00:14+01:00] view original

  this seems like a bug in either clang or nim. Ideally if you don't pass "debugger:native" to nim then nim would instruct clang not to emit debug info.

  It may be that clang's debug info generation rules are "odd" when using clang.exe (not clang-cl, i.e. clang with the gnu command line) in msvc-abi mode.

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• AmjadBHD (orginal) [2021-12-17T15:24:34+01:00] view original

  It was introduced in https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/9976

  Ideally if you don't pass "debugger:native" to nim then nim would instruct clang not to emit debug info.

  I agree.

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