Relative path for __FILE__ and PDB

Question

I want to hide machine specific path part from executable.

Is it possible to force relative path for PDB symbols and __FILE__ macro?

So that some/all initial parts of path are not put into file?

I use MSVC, GCC solutions will not work.

All options are following:

/permissive- /MP /GS /Zc:rvalueCast /analyze- /W3 /Zc:wchar_t /I"
<some path here>" /Qspectre-load /ZI /Gm- /Od /sdl /Fd"<some path here>"
/Zc:inline /fp:precise /D "WIN32" /D "_DEBUG" /D "_WINDOWS" /D
"_UNICODE" /D "UNICODE" /errorReport:prompt /WX- /Zc:forScope /RTC1
/GR- /Gd /Oy- /MTd /openmp- /Fa"<some path here>" /EHa /nologo
/Fo"<some path here>" /Fp"<some path here>" /diagnostics:classic

Iceskate

I don't know about VS, so I don't know if the behaviour of the macro can be configured. But instead of doing that, you can remove the parent path at runtime. – Scantling

Looks like a duplicate of this – Luhey

duplicates: How do I configure MSVC to show relative path for header files using __FILE__?, __FILE__ macro shows full path, C++ __FILE__ macro with absolute path – Somato

No, sorry, I need MSVC solution. – Iceskate

there are many Windows and MSVC solutions in the other question – Somato

The question is not how to extract base name from file path. The question is how to prevent full path from compiled executable in the first place. – Iceskate

Besides, use /PDBALTPATH:%_PDB% to hide the absolute path to the PDB file in the executable. See https://mcmap.net/q/517703/-remove-pdb-references-from-released-file – Unaccomplished

Answer 1

Compile your program without /FC and /ZI options.

Perfectionism

Nice. But there will still be an absolute path to the PDB if you look into the target binary. – Unaccomplished

@WildernessRanger you might want to use that: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/… – Leavening