Windows: Support backtraces on release builds.

This diff add supports for crash logs on windows for
release builds. This can be toggled on/off with the
`WITH_WINDOWS_PDB` cmake option. by default it is on.

Things to take into consideration:

Release builds are hightly optimized and the resulting
backtraces can be wrong/misleading, take the backtrace
as a general area where the problem resides rather than
an exact location.

By default we ship a minimized symbol file that can only
resolve the function names. This was chosen to strike
a balance between growth in size of the download vs
functionality gained. If more detailed information is
required such as source file + line number information
a full pdb can be shipped by setting `WITH_WINDOWS_STRIPPED_PDB`
to off.

The Release in the title of this diff refers to the
release build type, not the official blender releases.

Initially this will only be enabled for nightly build
bot versions of blender, official releases as of now
will not ship with symbols.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7520

Reviewed by: brecht

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/creator/CMakeLists.txt b/source/creator/CMakeLists.txt
index 4b51f9738b3..18166d2b224 100644
--- a/source/creator/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/source/creator/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -687,6 +687,14 @@ elseif(WIN32)
     )
   endif()
 
+  if(WITH_WINDOWS_PDB)
+    if(WITH_WINDOWS_STRIPPED_PDB)
+      install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIG>/blender_public.pdb DESTINATION . RENAME blender.pdb)
+    else()
+      install(FILES $<TARGET_PDB_FILE:blender> DESTINATION . RENAME blender.pdb)
+    endif()
+  endif()
+
   if(WITH_PYTHON)
     string(REPLACE "." "" _PYTHON_VERSION_NO_DOTS ${PYTHON_VERSION})
 
@@ -1085,6 +1093,13 @@ endif()
 # the use of vcpkg
 if(WIN32)
   set_target_properties(blender PROPERTIES VS_GLOBAL_VcpkgEnabled "false")
+  set_target_properties(blender PROPERTIES
+    PDB_NAME "blender_private"
+    PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIG>")
+    if (WITH_WINDOWS_PDB AND WITH_WINDOWS_STRIPPED_PDB)
+    message("poop : ${COMPILE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}")
+      target_link_options(blender PRIVATE "/PDBSTRIPPED:${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIG>/blender_public.pdb")
+  endif()
 endif()
 
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