Compiling python modules with DEBUG defined on MSVC

Question

Python rather stupidly has a pragma directive in its include files that forces a link against python26_d.lib when the DEBUG preprocessor variable i

Answer 1

You can also go the other way: switch to «Release» and then debug it. you need to enable generation of debugging symbols info in project properties in compiler and linker prefs; MSDN here will tell you exactly what options you need to set to debug a release build.