debugging information cannot be found or does not match visual studio's

Question

I copied an existing project and renamed the folder. Now I get this error when I try to compile the application

debugging information cannot be found

Answer 1

Enable PDB creation by:

Right click on MyProject > Properties > Debugging:

• C/C++ > General > Debug Information Output = Program Database (/Zi)
• Linker > Debugging > Generate Debug Info = Yes (/DEBUG)

Clean MyProject, restart Visual Studio (just to be sure), rebuild MyProject. The output folder should then contain *.pdb files.

If you debug optimized/release code consider switching off optimization via

• C++ > Optimization > Optmization = Disabled (/Od)