[CMake] setting a default build type

[David Cole]

Given a very basic HelloWorld application in Visual Studio, there is 
only one way that I have found to force it to choose something other 
than "Debug" by default: eliminate the "Debug" configuration.

In the very basic case (generated by Visual Studio wizard) there are 
only two configurations: Debug and Release. I've re-arranged the bits 
related to configuration in both the generated sln file and the vcproj 
file, to no avail. When there is no .suo file and Debug is one of the 
configurations, Visual Studio chooses it by default. Period. (As far as 
I can tell...)

I have used the following:
SET(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "MinSizeRel")
to restrict the configurations to 1 and only 1. This works nicely for 
automated builds when you set the only config type you care about from a 
script...

You could do the same, but then you lose the flexibility of just 
switching to Debug in the VS IDE...

HTH,
David

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

> Brad King wrote:
>
>>Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Brad King wrote:
>>>    
>>>
>>>>This would be a nice feature but I don't know how to implement it.  Try
>>>>generating a project and then manually editing the project files in such
>>>>a way that the IDE selects a different configuration by default.  Don't
>>>>forget to remove the .suo and .ncb files between attempts because they
>>>>store the user IDE state.
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>That approach is not desired.  People typically want CMakeList.txt under
>>>source control, not its end products, as the latter differ for every
>>>person.  We don't ship .sln files to people, we tell them to install CMake.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>I was not proposing this as a solution, I was asking you to figure out
>>how to implement it.  I have no idea how to write a .sln or .vcproj file
>>that will convince the VS IDE to come up with a non-Debug configuration
>>by default.  I just tried manually reordering the configurations to put
>>Release first and the IDE still selected Debug at startup.  Even
>>changing the Release configuration to have the name ARelease (which
>>comes before Debug lexicographically) didn't fix it.
>>  
>>
>
> I have no idea either, nor time to investigate it at present.  I will 
> note our lack of knowledge in the feature request.  Maybe we'll run 
> into someone else who knows better.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon Van Every
>
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