Visual studio cannot find nafxcwd.pdb

Question

I am working in a mixed Fortran-C++ programming environment. The C++ project is a static library ( XMLParser.lib ) used to read and write into XML files. It is added as an additional dependency to Fortran project, which is a DLL library ( engine.dll ) used to perform mathematical computations. The Fortran uses CRT ( LIBCMTD ) and C++ is using MFC libraries. As described in Here , this can cause linker error if LIBCMTD and NAFXCWD libraries are not linked in the correct order. To avoid this issue I had to add nafxcwd.lib as an additional dependency to C++ project.

Everything works fine and solution is compiled successfully however, while linking these projects, compiler is compaining that it cannot find nafxcwd.pdb file in $(OUTDIR) folder (the output folder where C++ static library is created). To work around this issue, I had to copy nafxcwd.pdb from Visual Studio folder into my output folder, which is not a practical option since this very specific instruction should be shared with every other programmer in my group. I have tried different options related to creating pdb file (ie /Zi, /Z7, and ZI) but none of them seems to be working.

2>XMLParser.lib(dumpcont.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(dumpflt.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(arccore.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(arcobj.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(arcex.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(arcstrm.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(dumpinit.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(dumpout.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(afxasert.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(afxmem.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(filecore.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(filetxt.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(filex.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(filest.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info
2>XMLParser.lib(array_b.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'nafxcwd.pdb' was not found with 'd:\Debug\XMLParser.lib' or at 'D:\Debug\nafxcwd.pdb'; linking object as if no debug info

I appreciate if you could help me with the following questions:

1. Why visual studio is looking for nafxcwd.pdb in output folder instead of VS folder?
2. Is there any way to embed nafxcwd.pdb into XMLParser.obj file to ensure that linker will always find it?

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

I figured out the answer to this problem. In the Fortran project, I added nafxcwd.lib libcmtd.lib to additional project dependencies, and added the same libraries to ignore list.