Debug release build in qt?

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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)
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c++qtmakefileclang
How is this 'off topic' Does it not fall under "software tools commonly used by programmers; and is a practical, answerable problem that is unique to software development" - user245019
Shouldn't CONFIG += debug do the trick? - It's Your App LLC
possible duplicate of Build Qt in "Release with Debug Info" mode? - Pavel Strakhov
@PavelStrakhov Don't think its a dup, I had read that before, but using qmake, which we aren't using as far as I can see. - user245019

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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.