Cannote find PDB Visual Studio 2010

Question

Hi guys!

I did my Hello World! program in Visual Studio 2010 C++, it does work all ok (except that if I enter 2 times it will close, it's normal?)

But there is a little "error message" or whatever that appear in the debug log:

'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file

What does that mean?

You can see my code here:

    #include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
  cout << "Hello World!" << endl;
  cin.clear();
  cin.ignore(255, '\n');
  cin.get();
  return 0;
}

Thanks!

Niko

Answer 1

It is telling you you don't have symbols installed for the system libraries (pdb = program database files) .

This isn't a problem, you can still debug your own code.

Answer 2

You could probably download the pdb via WinDbg from the symbol server. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311503 for more information on this.

The following command line will - after you have properly set up your symbol environment - download the pdb for ntdll.dll

symchk C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll

Answer 3

I tried something I saw but I'm not sure if it really works..? In Debug - Options - Symbols, I checked "Windows Symbol Servers" Now it says (it's in French so I translated, might not be exactly that on English VS):

'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll', Symbols charged (informations sources deleted).

Should it be ok now?