[Cmake] Debug /release

[William A. Hoffman]

In makefile based systems the cmake via CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE controls the build type.
In the visual studio IDE projects, the IDE controls the build type.   There are
advantages and disadvantages to both approaches.   People have requested the sub-dirs
in the makefiles, and the removal of the subdirs in the IDE files.   At some point,
I suppose both options will be implemented.   For now, they are not.   If you do not
want subdirs with MS compilers, you have to use nmake, and in that case it will work
just like UNIX.   If you use the IDE, it follows the normal convention for the IDE.
CMake try's to generate the build files in the most native way possible, and for the
MS IDE the Debug,Release directories are used by that system.   The big advantage is
that you only have to configure the build once for both Debug and Release.

-Bill



At 05:10 AM 1/14/2004, David Svoboda wrote:
>I'd like to know some info about switching between debug and release
>version in MSVC .NET:
>
>1. in ccmake program I can choose DEBUG/RELEASE (in CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE) to
>compile my project with required switches and macros. But in addition I
>can switch this in MS Visual Studio - and as I could see, there is no
>connection (consistence) between these to possibilities of switching DEBUG
>and RELASE version, respective. Is there any reasonable way to bind it?
>
>2. in MS Visual Studio - if DEBUG or RELEASE version is chosen, the
>directories Debug and Release are created, respectively. Is there any way
>in CMAKE to disable this so that the files were created in the current
>working directory?
>
>
>David Svoboda
>
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