Debug release build in qt?

Question

I'm fairly new to qt, so sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm trying to keep debug symbols in a release build on linux.

Most of what I've read has todo with qmake which we dont use. Our project is a makefile project using clang. I have the -g in the release build of my makefile, but when a raise() is called, I'm dumped to assembly which is a little hard for me to debug :) And breakpoints just don't work.

I've tried from what I've read.

• In Run - Enable QML
• In Kits Debugger - Uncheck warn when debugging release builds (this was a tip)

Answer 1

What I did first was to add -g to the release part of my makefile, but qt still didn't pickup the debug symbols.

So in reverse I added -03 to the debug part of the makefile, which allowed me to debug the optimised code.