[CMake] VS Project Question

[Philip Lowman]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Surya Kiran Gullapalli <
suryakiran.gullapalli at gmail.com> wrote:

>   I want to do similar change for ADD_EXECUTABLE as well.
> > >
> > > For Debug builds I want to have a console popping up to show the debug
> > > messages, and for release builds I do not want the console.
> > >
> > > How can i change the ADD_EXECUTABLE  call accordingly to supply extra
> > > option WIN32 based on the build type.?
> >
> >
> > Same limiting issue here.  You can build the executable twice for all
> > configurations (one with WIN32, one without) or you can resort to a single
> > build configuration per Visual Studio solution file.
> >
> > For you to get the kind of behavior you want, CMake would have to be
> > modified to run multiple times for each build type in
> > CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES and then modify the project files accordingly for
> > each configuration type, depending on the CMake commands the user issued.
> > This would be a neat feature request to add but could prove difficult to
> > implement.
> >
>
> Use
>
> SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES ( ${TARGET} PROPERTIES
> LINK_FLAGS_DEBUG "/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS"
> LINK_FLAGS_RELEASE "/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE"
> LINK_FLAGS "/ENTRY:mainCRTStartup"
> )
>
> In that case, debug executable will be built with a console and release
> one with out console.
>

Great idea!

-- 
Philip Lowman
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