Question

I’m using the Qt for developing the c/c++ application,while i try to debug the app with static library it is very slow and takes much time step over (r) in..

can any one suggest me to make the debugger fast as like vs2008..

regards
VS

Answer 1

It is likely you are having this behaviour because the debugger retrieves required debug info for system libraries from the internet each time – or it doesn’t find the requested info at all. If so, it will display something like that in the Debugging Window.

Follow these steps to set up a symbol cache which will allow caching debug symbols:

http://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-debugger-engines.html#setting-cdb-paths-on-windows

This might still make it slow for the next time you debug, but it should get quite fast from the second time on.

If you do not have internet access though, you will need to manually download these symbols from here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463028.aspx

and place them in the symbol cache folder you specified.