Quote Originally Posted by Michiel View Post
Debug mode generally compiles faster and runs slower than release mode.
It's because release mode does by default much more optimisations. That's why it is called release - when you are releasing a project, you compile in release mode. Contrary to that you compile in debug mode when you debug.

@Yogibear: You don't have debug libraries built (the "d" at the end of the library name marks it as debug).