Profiling - Configure Microsoft Visual Studio

To configure a project built by Microsoft Visual Studio, the application to be profiled should be built with the following settings applied. By default, a projects Debug configuration in Visual Studio 2019 sets all of the required settings to a suitable value.

Win32 and Win64 Platform

In the C/C++ -> Code Generation settings, for best results set the Runtime Library to be Multi-threaded Debug DLL (/MDd) for a Debug build or Multi-threaded DLL (/MD) for a Release build.

In the C/C++ -> General settings, set Debug Information Format to be either Program Database (/Zi) or Program Database for Edit And Continue (/ZI).

In the Linker -> Debugging settings, set Generate Debug Info to either Generate Debug Information (/DEBUG) or Generate Debug Information optimized for sharing and publishing (/DEBUG:FULL).

Win32 Only

For the Win32 platform you should ensure that the Frame Pointer Omission (FPO) optimization is disabled in order to allow WonderLeak to accurately capture stack traces.