Re: [PATCH] meson.build: Add --enable-use-pdb option

> On 22. Mar 2026, at 12:56, Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Overall, I think there's no need to have separate option especially
> for pdb, - it can be enabled on windows when --enable-debug is
> specified (or is it --debug? I don't remember).
> 
> This code:
> 
> option_cflags = (get_option('debug') ? ['-g'] : [])
> 
> can be extended to add the necessary compiler options.

Hello,

I think that’s a bit suboptimal because while Clang can generate PDBs, the same
isn’t true for a GCC build, where gdb + DWARF is in practice preferred instead.

A converter exists at https://github.com/rainers/cv2pdb however to cover the GCC
case but the compiler won’t do it by itself.

And people might also want to use gdb/lldb when they can :)

Thanks,
-Mohamed