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From: Steve Aarnio <saarnio@qti.qualcomm.com>
To: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: "qemu-trivial@nongnu.org" <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>
Subject: [PATCH] meson.build: Add --enable-use-pdb option
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:18:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MN2PR02MB6622718572E2A2B5E4EE3C039B4EA@MN2PR02MB6622.namprd02.prod.outlook.com> (raw)

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This option will (attempt to) modify the QEMU compile and link flags to
emit PDB symbol files rather than the standard (DWARF?) symbol output
from gcc/clang.

This enables using native Windows debug tools (Windbg/Visual Studio) for
debugging QEMU.

Signed-off-by: Steve Aarnio <saarnio@qti.qualcomm.com>
---
 meson.build       | 5 +++++
 meson_options.txt | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index d7c4095b39..d27581e0c2 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -692,6 +692,11 @@ endif

 qemu_common_flags += hardening_flags

+if get_option('debug') and get_option('use_pdb')
+  qemu_common_flags += cc.get_supported_arguments('-g','-gcodeview','-gcolumn-info','-fno-omit-frame-pointer')
+  qemu_ldflags += cc.get_supported_link_arguments('-g','-Wl,--pdb=')
+endif
+
 # Collect warning flags we want to set, sorted alphabetically
 warn_flags = [
   # First enable interesting warnings
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 31d5916cfc..b1f3250d5c 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -372,6 +372,8 @@ option('debug_stack_usage', type: 'boolean', value: false,
        description: 'measure coroutine stack usage')
 option('qom_cast_debug', type: 'boolean', value: true,
        description: 'cast debugging support')
+option('use_pdb', type: 'boolean', value: false,
+       description: 'use pdb symbol format on debug windows builds')
 option('slirp_smbd', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
        description: 'use smbd (at path --smbd=*) in slirp networking')

--
2.53.0


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             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-18 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-18 19:18 Steve Aarnio [this message]
2026-03-19  1:24 ` [PATCH] meson.build: Add --enable-use-pdb option Mohamed Mediouni
2026-03-19 15:55   ` Steve Aarnio
2026-03-22 11:56 ` Michael Tokarev
2026-03-22 12:21   ` Mohamed Mediouni
2026-03-23 17:44     ` [PATCH v2 1/1] meson.build: Add --enable-pdb option Steve Aarnio
2026-03-23 21:32       ` Mohamed Mediouni

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