Visual Studio loading a mismatched PDB file
When debugging programs under Windows using Visual Studio, if the PDB file does not match the executable file, Visual Studio will display “Unable to load symbol file.” The program crashes and generates a crash dump. If it’s an mismatched PDB file, Visual Studio cannot smoothly enter the crash site.
What is a PDB File? A PDB file is a debugging information file created by Microsoft, used for debugging programs. It contains information such as the symbol table, source code filenames, line numbers, and other debugging data.
Visual Studio Compilation Character Set [Converted]
C++ cross-platform development. Commonly encountered on Chinese operating systems: error C2001 - constant contains a newline character.
Visual Studio cmake organizes the project compilation script, generating a temporary solution under the windows system for development. The reason for cross-platform compatibility is that the file encoding is chosen as utf-8.
The cited reference provides a detailed explanation of the causes of the problem from first principles.
Regarding encoding, MSVC has dedicated compilation options /source-charset and /execution-charset.