Is there any way of configuring the linker in Visual Studio so that file names (and paths) embedded in the .pdb file maintain their casing?
We have a Visual Studio C++/Cli DLL that we'd like to package with NuGet. We want to use SourceLink so that our developers can step into the code, which is hosted on a (private) GitHub repository.
However, when trying to step into the source, Visual Studio (2019 16.2.2) reports an error:
git-credential-manager.exe: Could not obtain credentials. Process failed with exit code -1. ERROR: The request failed with code 404 : "Not Found". Treating 404 as authentication failure. Some services return 404 instead of 401 for authentication failures.
Source Link URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OurCompany/OurRepository/aca51f6e381401234e95b63949d150be04a0ea4a/ourproject/oursubfolder/thefile.cpp
Note that on the file-system and repository the file path uses camel-casing: Ourproject/OurSubFolder/TheFile.cpp.
When I replicate the request in Postman using Basic authorisation, it does indeed fail with 404. However, the problem seems to be that the URL constructed by Visual Studio uses lower-case characters for the filename and location; correcting the case makes the request work in Postman. GitHub URLs are of course case-sensitive and that's not configurable.
Opening the .pdb file in Notepad++ shows the filenames are indeed lower-case.
For what it's worth, changing ignorecase = false in the git .config file makes no difference.
I had the exact same issue. It turns out it's a known bug, and was fixed in VS2019. Unfortunately you need to upgrade to the latest tool chain (v142).