Bug 14873 – Build fails with message 'cannot create PDB file'

This does not appear to be a duplicate of 13641. I've tried the solution provided there and it does not work for me. I am using Visual D in VS2015 on Windows 10. Happy to provide logs and cmd files at request. Here the simple output: ------ Build started: Project: Library, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Building Debug\Library.dll... Converting debug information... C:\Users\Derik\Projects\TagIO\Projects\Library\Debug\Library.pdb: cannot create PDB file Building Debug\Library.dll failed! Details saved as "file://C:\Users\Derik\Projects\TagIO\Projects\Library\Debug\Library.buildlog.html" ------ Build started: Project: Server, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Building Debug\Server.exe... Converting debug information... C:\Users\Derik\Projects\TagIO\Projects\Server\Debug\Server.pdb: cannot create PDB file Building Debug\Server.exe failed! Details saved as "file://C:\Users\Derik\Projects\TagIO\Projects\Server\Debug\Server.buildlog.html" ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 2 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Could be a duplicate of issue 14164. Is this happening with the latest release, too? Please try https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases/tag/v0.3.42

I'll check on the possibility of the 14164 resolution, and download the latest and re-check the issue there.

Issue 14164 appears completely unrelated to this. This issue is blocking successful compilation. If there a log that might reveal an underlying error message for which this may be a generic mask?

Posting C:\Users\Derik\Projects\TagIO\Projects\Library\Debug\Library.buildlog.html here might help. I suspect it might have to do with bad PATH settings. If you switch to mago as the debug engine used for debugging, no conversion to PDB will be necessary. It's actually the default now with the latest version of Visual D.

> Issue 14164 appears completely unrelated to this. Sorry, mistyped here. I meant issue 14614.

Sorry for the delay. I've tried this with the latest version (0.3.42 from a4db8f4) and got the same results. ------ Rebuild All started: Project: Library, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Building Debug\Library.dll... Converting debug information... C:\Users\Derik\Projects\TagIO\Projects\Library\Debug\Library.pdb: cannot create PDB file Building Debug\Library.dll failed! Details saved as "file://C:\Users\Derik\Projects\TagIO\Projects\Library\Debug\Library.buildlog.html" ========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ========== The build log reveals... Command Line set PATH=C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE;%PATH% dmd -g -debug -X -Xf"Debug\Library.json" -deps="Debug\Library.dep" -c -of"Debug\Library.obj" dll.def dllmain.d Objects.d TagIO.d if errorlevel 1 goto reportError set LIB="C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\lib" echo. > C:\Users\Derik\Projects\TagIO\Projects\Library\Debug\Library.build.lnkarg echo "Debug\Library.obj","Debug\Library.dll_cv","Debug\Library.map",user32.lib+ >> C:\Users\Derik\Projects\TagIO\Projects\Library\Debug\Library.build.lnkarg echo kernel32.lib,dll.def/MAP:FULL/CO/NOI/DELEXE >> C:\Users\Derik\Projects\TagIO\Projects\Library\Debug\Library.build.lnkarg "C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\pipedmd.exe" -deps Debug\Library.lnkdep C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe @C:\Users\Derik\Projects\TagIO\Projects\Library\Debug\Library.build.lnkarg if errorlevel 1 goto reportError if not exist "Debug\Library.dll_cv" (echo "Debug\Library.dll_cv" not created! && goto reportError) echo Converting debug information... "C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\cv2pdb\cv2pdb.exe" "Debug\Library.dll_cv" "Debug\Library.dll" if errorlevel 1 goto reportError if not exist "Debug\Library.dll" (echo "Debug\Library.dll" not created! && goto reportError) goto noError :reportError echo Building Debug\Library.dll failed! Output onverting debug information... C:\Users\Derik\Projects\TagIO\Projects\Library\Debug\Library.pdb: cannot create PDB file Building Debug\Library.dll failed!

Thanks for posting the log. It seems a path to $(VSINSTALLDIR)\VC\bin needs to be added to the "Executable Paths" for DMD/Win32 builds to start the MS PDB server executable mspdbsrv.exe. Once it is running, it works without the additional path.

Should be fixed in https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases/tag/v0.3.43-beta1

released in https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases/tag/v0.3.43