Visual Studio 2017 - how to point debug symbols for diagsession generated on the other machine

Question

I use Visual Studio 2017. I open diagsession file generated on other machine. Output window shows that symbols
have not been loaded, for example:

Symbols failed to load for C:\Workspace\App\libA.dll. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

I have built appropriate libs. The libs have been build from the same source code as on the other machine. Then
I have set a path to the pdb files: Debug/Options/Symbols/Symbol file (.pdb) locations. It doesn't help. I have also
copied libs and pdbs to the some location as mentioned in the output output window, i.e. Symbols failed to load
for... but it also doesn't work. Am I doing something wrong ? How to point symbols for diagsession generated on
the other machine ?

Answer 1

Hi @Irbis ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Please make sure you have checked this option: Tools > Options… > Debugging > Symbols > Symbol file (.pdb) locations > Microsoft Symbol Servers, and have set the Cache symbols in this directory option as default path(normally default path is like %Temp%\SymbolCache).

Feel free to contact me.

Best Regards,
Tianyu

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