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Questions tagged [release-mode]

an ide or build setting requesting builds without debug objects

typical hallmarks of this mode: optimized compilation, different linking, omitted debugging artifacts

known environments where this concept applies: eclipse, visual studio, maven

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Common reasons for bugs in release version not present in debug mode

What are the typical reasons for bugs and abnormal program behavior that manifest themselves only in release compilation mode but which do not occur when in debug mode?
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C# release version has still .pdb file

I want to deploy the release version of my application done in C#. When I build using the Release config, I still can see that .pdb files are produced, meaning that my application can be still debugged. This also means that some debug information is…
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How to check if an assembly was built using Debug or Release configuration?

I'm starting deployment of my web application and I need to guarantee that all the assemblies that are going to be deployed were built using Release configuration. Our system was developed using C#/.Net 3.5. Is there any way to achieve this?
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How to debug in release mode?

I have to debug a c++ project, but as one dependency doesn't compile in debug mode and I haven't been able to fix that issue so far, I'd like to try to debug the project in release mode. Currently the application crashes due to a null pointer, but…
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Linker error LNK2038: mismatch detected in Release mode

I am trying to port a small app of mine from Win XP and VS 2005 to Win 7 and VS 2010. The app compiles and runs smoothly in Debug mode, however in Release mode I get the following error: pcrecpp.lib(pcrecpp.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected…
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Why are my binaries not placed in the /bin/release folder when I build a Windows Service in C#?

I am new to C# and VS 2010, and am following an online guide to creating a C# Windows Service in Visual Studio 2010. When I try and build the application however, I don't get any files created under the /bin/release folder. I do get files under the…
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Release mode static library much larger than debug mode version

today i found out that the compiled static library i'm working on is much larger in Release mode than in Debug. I found it very surprising, since most of the time the exact opposite happens (as far as i can tell). The size in debug mode is slightly…
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Flutter debugging release mode, enable logs in release mode

I know based on documentation that Debugging information is stripped out. Debugging is disabled. But can we somehow force to print logs, or maybe debug in release mode? "production app" I'm using Android Studio. For example while developing…
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Different results with Haar cascade when in release/debug mode

I am using a Haar cascade classifier trained from the MIT cars dataset to detect vehicles in OpenCV (trained using the utilities provided with OpenCV). This works reasonably well when compiled in Debug mode, but when compiled in Release mode the…
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App on release crashes, while on debug doesn't

I'm developing an app using Android Studio, and when I switched from debug to release build variant, it began to crash. While on debug it doesn't happen anything at all. The real problem is that I can't find where is the true error, as every…
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Swift behaves differently on debug and release mode

Not sure if that's an issue with Swift, XCode or Alamofire but I recognized strange behavior on different places within my mixed Swift/Objc app. It only happens in parts which are written in Swift and use closures/networking. Here's an example code…
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How to find out if a .NET assembly was compiled with the TRACE or DEBUG flag

Is there any way to find out if an assembly has been compiled with the TRACE or DEBUG flag set without modifying the assembly?
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How to generate PDB's for .net managed projects in release mode?

I know PDBs are generated for managed projects in .NET by giving the compiler the /debug argument. Is there a way to specify this in the VS (2005) GUI? The only way I could get it to generate PDBs in release mode so far is to manually modify the…
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Why won't Android Studio create my AAR file in release mode

Using Android Studio, I have an Android library project which produces 'library/build/outputs/aar/MyLIB.aar" just fine in Debug mode, but does not do so in Release mode. I see no errors, just "BUILD SUCCESSFUL" in the "Gradle Console" window but no…
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The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion if Debug dll used

I was trying to deploy a windows service on my machine, but when I was trying to start it I got following error. "Windows could not start the 'myService' on Local Computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a…
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