The dmd backend should generate .pdb files for visual studio.

[Rumbu]

On Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 23:56:14 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 23:33:05 UTC, 12345swordy 
> wrote:
>> https://ibb.co/0q6NkZk
>> Look at the bottom left window.
>> It display enum values as integers!
>>
>> -Alex
>
> Not for trivial cases: https://ibb.co/YBK4H7q
>
> So this seems to be a bug, most likely not the last, but 
> doesn't entail reinventing the wheel; .pdb output is already 
> there.

DMD will not output enum info if the underlying enum type is not 
int.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/32313b9f696520fae4910b96d5e4e6bd9b28e4a8/src/dmd/tocvdebug.d#L154

And to clear some misconceptions here, PDB uses CodeView format 
internally.