[Cmake] Borland and NMake builds

[William A. Hoffman]

Borland and nmake work just like unix.   There are no configuration 
subdirectories.   Release or Debug,
is set by changing a flag value in the cache.

-Bill


At 08:39 AM 1/24/2002 -0500, Miller, James V (CRD) wrote:
>Do the Borland and NMake builds put executables in "configuration" 
>subdirectories? I.e. do they put executables in a "Release" or "Debug" or 
>"RelWithDebInfo", etc. subdirectory?
>
>When Dart looks for tests to run, it looks in the current directory, then 
>the subdirectories "Release", "Debug", "MinSizeRel", and "RelWithDebInfo" 
>(in that order).  The first directory that has an executable with the 
>proper name is the one that it runs.
>
>Unfortunately, this means if you did a Release build of your project, then 
>ran a Nightly or Experimental using the Debug configuration, Dart would 
>build the Debug version but run the Release versions of the exe's as the 
>tests. These Release exe's could be very far out of date with the current 
>source tree.
>
>What I would like to do for msdev builds, it peek at the MAKE_COMMAND and 
>decide what configuration was built by Dart and only look for executables 
>in the current directory and that specific configuration subdirectory.
>
>This will work fine for msdev builds.  But I do not know what the impact 
>to Borland or NMake builds may be. I'd like to remove the naive search 
>pattern if it is not needed for the Borland and NMake builds. If the 
>Borland and NMake builds do put executables in configuration specific 
>subdirectories, what does the MAKE_COMMAND look like to specify the 
>configuration?
>
>
>
>Jim Miller
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