It is possible that an antivirus or a similar program is touching the pdb file on write – an antivirus is the most likely suspect in this scenario. I’m afraid that I can only give you some general pointers, based on my past experience in setting nightly builds in our shop. Some of these may … Read more
-Z macro-backtrace is a rustc flag, not a cargo flag. You should be able to pass it to rustc using cargo +nightly rustc — -Z macro-backtrace. (The +nightly in the command line is optional if you already switched to the nightly compiler as the default.) Alternatively, you can set the RUSTFLAGS environment variable: export RUSTFLAGS=”-Z … Read more
You should do nightly builds to ensure that your codebase stays healthy. A side effect of doing nightly builds is that it forces the team to create and maintain a fully automated build script. This helps to ensure that your build process is documented and repeatable. Automated builds are good at finding the following problems: … Read more