Dr Memory with Premake5 : How to specify Debug Information

Question

I want to use Dr. Memory on my Visual Studio 2019 project.

Dr. Memory has a page on how to prepare your application properly to use Dr. Memory: http://drmemory.org/docs/page_prep.html

I know how to disable inlining and turn off frame pointer optimizations.

omitframepointer("On")
inlining("Disabled")
symbols("On")

But I'm stuck as to how to generate the debug information that Dr. Memory wants.

I have tried adding this to my premake script

linkoptions { "/DEBUG:FULL" }

But when I add this to my solution all I end up with is this error message: 2>LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/DEBUG:FULL'; ignored

But if I type in /DEBUG:FULL manually (under aditional options) into visual studio it works.

So I guess I have 2 questions:

Who does this linkoptions command not work? Is there an alternative I can use to achieve the same goal?

Answer 1

you can try with

symbols 'On'

https://github.com/premake/premake-core/wiki/symbols

I think debug:full might be a compiler option not a linker option as debug information is generated at compile time. at link time the inofrmation should just be gathered from obj files and put in a pdb file (when using full).