customizing visual studio 2019

Question

I have to build a program without debugging information to analyze it using ADA reverse engineering. here are the instructions that I must do.

1-Turn off debugging symbols (turn off -g).

2-Turn off all optimizations.

3-Strip all symbols from the binary.

any help on how to do this?

Answer 1

These settings are all corresponding to project. For example C++ project:

1) Turn off debugging symbols (turn off -g).

• go to Properties\\C/C++\\General, and set “Debug Information Format” to None

• go to Properties\\Linker\\Debugging, and set “Generate Debug Info” to None

• go to Properties\\Linker\\Advanced, and set “Profile” to No

2) Turn off all optimizations.

> go to Properties\\C/C++\\Optimization, and set “Optimization” to Disabled

3) Strip all symbols from the binary.

As far as I know , the symbols are just saved into pdb file instead of binary, please refer more here .