[CMake] How to support separate debug and release build directories?

[David Aldrich]

>
> > What would best practice be to provide convenient commands for our
> > developers to easily build the target ?
>
> For the Makefile generator, best practice is to use separate build
> directories (i.e., places where you run cmake) for different
> configurations (i.e., different settings recorded during the
> configuration step).
>
> If you want to provide developers with some known set(s) of
> configuration settings, I suggest wrapper scripts that invoke cmake
> with those settings.
>
> Thanks for your advice. I am not finding it easy to find 'patterns' for
these sort of issues. I would have thought that configuring a project with
separate debug and release directories would be quite typical. But it's
hard to find the recommended way of doing such things. Anyway, I think I am
on the right track now.
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