# PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_<CONFIG>

Per-configuration output directory for the MS debug symbol `.pdb` file generated by the linker for an executable or shared library target.

This is a per-configuration version of `PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY`, but multi-configuration generators (Visual Studio Generators, `Xcode`) do NOT append a per-configuration subdirectory to the specified directory. This property is initialized by the value of the `CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_<CONFIG>` variable if it is set when a target is created.

Added in version 3.12: Contents of `PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_<CONFIG>` may use `generator expressions`.

Note

This property does not apply to STATIC library targets because no linker is invoked to produce them so they have no linker-generated `.pdb` file containing debug symbols.

The linker-generated program database files are specified by the `/pdb` linker flag and are not the same as compiler-generated program database files specified by the `/Fd` compiler flag. Use the `COMPILE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_<CONFIG>` property to specify the latter.