# Building libjulia-debug.dll for debug but no symbols loaded for DLL

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-libjulia-debug-dll-for-debug-but-no-symbols-loaded-for-dll/77925>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [March 15, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-libjulia-debug-dll-for-debug-but-no-symbols-loaded-for-dll/77925 "2022-03-15T20:02:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Jon\_Barker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jon_barker/32/18997_2.png) [@Jon\_Barker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jon_Barker)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-libjulia-debug-dll-for-debug-but-no-symbols-loaded-for-dll/77925/1 "2022-03-15T20:02:14Z")

</div>

I’m building julia in debug mode (`make debug -j 8`) however when attaching to the process, it says there are no symbols.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/4/8/48d7d86b61cd2a647dff88afd8db171811a33d01.png)

What am I doing wrong? Is it not possible to debug with visual studio and I need to use GDB or something?  
I was attempting to use GDB and it fails to `step` line by line, instead erroring:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/a/9/a903ec0800e047d8a326dfb383037d9d1a0e24bb.png)