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No debugging symbols in gdb even when compiling with -g flag

Asked 2010-12-31T06:10:19.740
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I am trying to compile my program with debugging symbols for use in gdb. I have added the -g flag to my makefile but I still get "Reading symbols from ...(no debugging symbols found)" when I load the program in gdb. What is wrong??

Here is a stripped down example of my makefile which should have the relevant bits:

CPP = g++
CFLAGS = -c -g -Wall

$(BIN): $(OBJ)
 $(CPP) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJ) -o $(BIN) $(LIBS)

<test.o>: <test.cpp>
 $(CPP) $(CFLAGS) <test.cpp> -o <test.o>

If you'd like to see the whole thing you can go here instead, though I don't think it's necessary:

http://pastebin.com/vGNjy0ga

Miscellaneous notes.. I'm compiling with MinGW on Windows and I have SFML and OpenGL as dependencies.

And no, the -s flag is nowhere to be found in my makefile.

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Ahh. I'm very sorry. It turns out the "clean:" portion of my makefile is broken. Thus when I used make clean nothing happened. Deleting the .o files manually fixed the problem. The flags work perfectly now. Thanks to everyone who posted anyway! This can be deleted now.

answered 2010-12-31T06:36:39.427

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