[CMake] Find out current CXX_FLAGS at build time?

William A. Hoffman billlist at nycap.rr.com
Wed Feb 15 09:35:59 EST 2006


At 09:09 AM 2/15/2006, Zachary Pincus wrote:
>>>I'd like to be able to determine what the current CXX_FLAGS are *at
>>>build time*.
>>>
>>>Specifically, the CXX_FLAGS used will change depending on what
>>>configuration type is selected in an IDE. Is there a variable that
>>>will expand at build time to the proper flags?
>>
>>Does this help ?
>>http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables#Compilers_and_Tools
>
>Thanks. I'm not sure if that's quite what I need, though. These  
>variables will expand at cmake configure time. But for IDEs, the  
>build style isn't set until build time, so I assume there needs to be  
>a separate build-time variable to look at. Maybe I'm interpreting  
>things wrong, though.

CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG will be used in the Debug configuration of the IDE.

-Bill



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