You can build a dSYM for any linked image. The only thing you can't build it for is object and archive files. Whether to do it or not is just a tradeoff between build time & preserving debug information long term.
Jim (*) Technical note. "ld" has an obscure option "ld -r" which makes another "partially linked" .o file out of a collection of .o files (or a .a file.) These are also NOT linked images, so you cannot make a dSYM for them. However, the linker also doesn't copy the debug info from .o files to the ld -r file, it writes a partial debug map pointing back to the original .o or .a file. So if you have a target that makes an "ld -r" output object file, you will need to keep it AND the source .o files around till you end up fully linking the "ld -r" file, then you can make a dSYM out of that. Jim > On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:48 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > >> On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Quincey Morris >> <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: >> >> Looking at a recently created project (so that the settings are what Apple >> currently recommends, we might presume), it has DWARF for the debug >> configuration and DWARF with dSYM for the release configuration. That sounds >> right, I think. > > What sort of target did you use? Again, our project has all sorts of > different targets, not just apps. > > —Jens > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Xcode-users mailing list (Xcode-users@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/jingham%40apple.com > > This email sent to jing...@apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list (Xcode-users@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
