Cannot Find or Open the Pdb File in Visual Studio C++ 2010

cannot find or open the pdb file' Visual Studio C++ 2013

Try go to Tools->Options->Debugging->Symbols and select checkbox "Microsoft Symbol Servers", Visual Studio will download PDBs automatically.

PDB is a debug information file used by Visual Studio. These are
system DLLs, which you don't have debug symbols for.[...]

See Cannot find or open the PDB file in Visual Studio C++ 2010

Visual Studio 2010 Cannot find or open the PDB file

The modules (Ctrl-D, M) is a good place to sort out whats going on so you're in the right area.

Right-click the module/dll you expected the pdb to be found for and select Symbol Load Information

It should look in the same directory as your dll to begin with and if it finds the pdb will either load it or tell you that the pdb file doesnt match the dll.

(C++/Visual Studio) cannot find or open pdb file & no printing to console

The console opens and then closes because the program ended! It is not designed to stay open indefinitely.

Some people write hacks like system("cls") at the end of main to produce a "Please press any key to continue" prompt, but really this is not appropriate as blocking on input is not part of the semantics of your program.

You would be better off configuring your IDE to keep the console window open after the program has finished, as described in this previous Q&A.

Error Message : Cannot find or open the PDB file

The PDB file is a Visual Studio specific file that has the debugging symbols for your project. You can ignore those messages, unless you're hoping to step into the code for those dlls with the debugger (which is doubtful, as those are system dlls). In other words, you can and should ignore them, as you won't have the PDB files for any of those dlls (by default at least, it turns out you can actually obtain them when debugging via the Microsoft Symbol Server). All it means is that when you set a breakpoint and are stepping through the code, you won't be able to step into any of those dlls (which you wouldn't want to do anyways).

Just for completeness, here's the official PDB description from MSDN:

A program database (PDB) file holds debugging and project state information that allows incremental linking of a Debug configuration of your program. A PDB file is created when you compile a C/C++ program with /ZI or /Zi

Also for future reference, if you want to have PDB files for your own code, you would would have to build your project with either the /ZI or /Zi options enabled (you can set them via project properties --> C/C++ --> General, then set the field for "Debug Information Format"). Not relevant to your situation, but I figured it might be useful in the future

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