[CMake] Can't use Visual Studio Debugger with Cmake

[Michael Jackson]

Beniot, 
  The Visual Studio generator does not care about CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE. You need to set that in Visual Studio Itself. Once you do that you will be able to debug. There is topically a setting in the top toolbar where you can switch between Debug and Release builds.
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Mike Jackson                 www.bluequartz.net

On Jul 22, 2013, at 5:21 AM, Benoit <benpaka.spam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a serious problem to use VS2008 Debugger when I create a project using CMake 2.8.11.1.
> 
> For example I am trying to "debug" the HelloDemo project.
> So I do the following:
> 	• Select Source Folder: C:/Program Files/CMake 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Example (Example files where available form .zip but not from .exe)
> 	• Select build folder:  C:/Projects/builds/test_hellodemo
> 	• Click on "Configure"
> 	• Specify generator to VS 9 2008 and click Finish
> 	• Set "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE" to Debug.
> 	• Click on "Generate"
> 	• Open C:/Projects/builds/test_hellodemo/Hello.sln
> 	• Build Solution (F7)
> 	• Set breakpoint on hello.Print() function inside demo.cxx file.
> 	• Start Debugging (F5) > Specify the executable file name by : C:\Projects\builds\test_hellodemo\Demo\Debug\helloDemo.exe
> And then no debugger is launched!
> Below is the output:
> 
> 'helloDemo.exe': Loaded 'C:\Projects\builds\test_hellodemo\Demo\Debug\helloDemo.exe', Binary was not built with debug information.
> 'helloDemo.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll'
> 'helloDemo.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll'
> The program '[0x808] helloDemo.exe: Native' has exited with code 0 (0x0).
> 
> Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong! I though setting Build_type to debug was enough!
> The strange thing Is that I have used Cmake with OpenCV two years ago and I don't remind this error!
> 
>  Cheers,
> 
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> Benoit RAT
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