[gdal-dev] /MD vs /MDd for DEBUG MSVC builds

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2017-09-27 4:52 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> On 27 September 2017 at 21:38, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
>>
>> Once again someone raised an issue about the MSVC runtime we use for DEBUG=1
>> builds: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/7059
>>
>> [...]
>> Personnaly I believe I've never used a Windows build, so I'm mostly
>> indifferent
>>
>> Any opinion about using the debug MSVC runtime (/MDd) for DEBUG=1 builds
>> instead of the current release runtime (/MD) ?
> 
> Even,
> 
> Yesterday, I started thinking about adding an extra build configuration to NMAKE
> makefile, controlled via command line defines, to enable such proper/full debug
> build for Windows.
> 
> IMO, debug builds w/o /MDd are somewhat unexpected or exotic.
> As one of Windows users and developers, I'd vote for the default
> MSVC configuration for debug builds of GDAL.
> 
> This would also help a bit with binary packages for Visual C++,
> currently, it requires nmake.opt patching.
> https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/pull/1879
> 
> Best regards,
> 

To clarify: Mateusz you mean that debug builds should be changed to 
/MDd, correct?  I somehow read your response as you also want to change 
the default build in nmake to be the debug build.  Or, maybe my brain is 
tired ha :)  -jeff