Visual Studio 2012 in Windows 10: Cannot find or open the PDB file

Question

I have seen this problem fixed for Windows 7 and other versions of Visual Studio, but none of these methods have fixed my problem.

I have installed opencv 2.4.2 with Visual Studio C++ 2012, and I have already changed the property pages to include the Additional Directories for C/C++ -> General, Additional Libraries for Linker->General, and additional dependencies for Linker->Input. I have also added the appropriate paths to the environment variable "Path."

Still, I am getting the following error:

'PlanarHomography.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\opencv-2.4.2\opencv\build\x64\vc12\bin\opencv_calib3d2413.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'PlanarHomography.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\opencv-2.4.2\opencv\build\x64\vc12\bin\opencv_core2413.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'PlanarHomography.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\opencv-2.4.2\opencv\build\x64\vc12\bin\opencv_features2d2413.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'PlanarHomography.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\opencv-2.4.2\opencv\build\x64\vc12\bin\opencv_flann2413.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

'PlanarHomography.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\opencv-2.4.2\opencv\build\x64\vc12\bin\opencv_imgproc2413.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.

Any assistance on what to do here would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I'm used to using Eclipse and had to use Visual Studio for someone else's project. I didn't realize, different .dll files were needed for "release" and "debug" modes. Adding "d" to the end of each file name fixed my problem.

For example: opencv_calib3d2413.dll (for release) should instead be opencv_calib3d2413d.dll (for debug).