When you open your module in AQTime, it searches for the debug info file in this default location. pdb debug info file resides in the same folder where the profiled executable or DLL is located. If you are profiling an ActiveX control or a COM server, do not forget to register its 'debug' version in the system (See Profiling COM Applications).īy default, the. It is possible that the vc80.pdb file is not generated by Visual Studio and this will not cause any problems with profiling. vcX0.pdb contains part of your application's debugging information, which may be needed to profile the entire application in AQTime correctly. for Visual C++ 8.0 this file is called vc80.pdb. In addition, this directory should contain the vcX0.pdb file, where X is the major version number of the Visual C++ compiler, e.g. Once finished, your application will be ready for profiling in AQTime.īefore opening the application in AQTime, make sure that the output directory of your application includes the.

Click OK to save the settings and then rebuild the application.

Select the Release configuration for your project: This will open the Configuration Manager dialog.

Select Build > Configuration Manager from the main menu.

To add debug information to your Visual C++ 2005 - 2015 application, follow these steps: If you are not sure whether your application's compiler settings were changed, you can follow the steps described in this topic to make sure that your application is compiled with debug information. The Release configuration is used to build the final version of the application, so you should search for performance bottlenecks in versions compiled with the Release configuration, but not with the Debug configuration. However, we recommend that you change the active configuration to Release if you are going to profile with the Performance profiler. So, if you do not change the compiler settings, you can compile and profile your Visual C++ application as is.

Note that default settings created by Microsoft Visual Studio for a new Visual C++ application already contain the necessary information for generating debug information.

To learn how to prepare applications created with other compilers, see the topics below:Ĭompiler Settings for Microsoft Visual C++ 2017Ĭompiler Settings for Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0Ĭompiler Settings for Microsoft Visual C++. This topic explains how to prepare applications created with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 - 2015 for AQTime.

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