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Georges Farah
Georges Farah

Reputation: 813

'cannot find or open the pdb file' Visual Studio C++ 2013

I just downloaded VS 2013 Community Edition and I wrote my first app. When I run it it shows in the output section:

'ConsoleApplication1.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Users\Toshiba\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\ConsoleApplication1\Debug\ConsoleApplication1.exe'. Symbols loaded.
'ConsoleApplication1.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'ConsoleApplication1.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'ConsoleApplication1.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\KernelBase.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'ConsoleApplication1.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msvcp120d.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'ConsoleApplication1.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msvcr120d.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
The program '[11196] ConsoleApplication1.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

What is the problem? I checked my code on many sites so I know that the problem is not in my code. Can anyone help me?

Upvotes: 63

Views: 261297

Answers (6)

Rahul Solanki
Rahul Solanki

Reputation: 385

It worked for me.

Go to Tools-> Options -> Debugger -> Native and check the Load DLL exports.

OR

Go to Tools -> Debugg -> Start without debugging

Upvotes: 7

The Beast
The Beast

Reputation: 1669

Working with VS 2013. Try the following

Tools -> Options -> Debugging -> Output Window -> Module Load Messages -> Off

It will disable the display of modules loaded.

Upvotes: 18

Sakeeb Hossain
Sakeeb Hossain

Reputation: 737

A bit late but I thought I'd share in case it helps anyone: what is most likely the problem is simply that your Debug Console (the command line window that opens when run your project if it is a Windows Console Application) is still open from the last time you ran the code. Just close that window, then rebuild and run: Ctrl + B and F5, respectively.

Upvotes: 2

CryWolF
CryWolF

Reputation: 41

There are no problems here this is perfectly normal - it shows informational messages about what debug-info was loaded (and which wasn't) and also that your program executed and exited normally - a zero return code means success.

If you don't see anything on the screen thry running your program with CTRL-F5 instead of just F5.

Upvotes: 4

Alesson
Alesson

Reputation: 1266

Try go to Tools->Options->Debugging->Symbols and select checkbox "Microsoft Symbol Servers", Visual Studio will download PDBs automatically.

PDB is a debug information file used by Visual Studio. These are system DLLs, which you don't have debug symbols for.[...]

See Cannot find or open the PDB file in Visual Studio C++ 2010

Upvotes: 125

Sebastian Redl
Sebastian Redl

Reputation: 71889

No problem. You're running your code under the debugger, and the debugger is telling you that it doesn't have debugging information for the system libraries.

If you really need that (usually for stack traces), you can download it from Microsoft's symbol servers, but for now you don't need to worry.

Upvotes: 37

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