I can happily say I haven't used a Microsoft compiler/linker in decades, but: 1) Maybe clang-cl will do what you want? 2) Maybe it'd be easier to put debugging print's/printf's/cout <<'s in your code?
HTH On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 1:55 PM Jeff <jmogui...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We developed a Python module that interfaces with native code via Cython. > > > > We currently build on Windows with Visual Studio Toolchain. > > > > We encounter the following issues when trying to build a debug version: > > > > 1) 3rd party modules installed via PIP are Release mode, but Visual > Studio > >> toolchain doesn't allow to mix Debug and Release libs. To workaround > this > >> issue, we build our module in "Release" mode, with debug symbols > enabled, > >> and with compiled optimization disabled (essentially a hack). > > > > 2) To build our module we currently use the following hack: > > > > step 1: run python.exe setup.py build --compiler=msvc > > > > step 2: extract the output > > > > step 3: change /Ox to /Od (disable compiler optimization) > > > > add /Zi flag to compiler flags (enable debug symbols) > > > > add /DEBUG flag to linker flags > > > > > >> Please advise what is the best solution? > > > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list