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cliutils.gitlab.io › modern-cmake › chaptersBuilding in debug mode. For single-configuration generators, you can build your code with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug to get debugging flags. In multi-configuration generators, like many IDEs, you can pick the configuration in the IDE. There are distinct flags for this mode (variables ending in _DEBUG as opposed to _RELEASE ), as well as a generator expression value CONFIG:Debug or CONFIG:Release.
cmake - What are CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Debug, Release ...
stackoverflow.com › questions › 48754619Feb 13, 2018 · CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE. Specifies the build type on single-configuration generators. This statically specifies what build type (configuration) will be built in this build tree. Possible values are empty, Debug, Release, RelWithDebInfo and MinSizeRel. This variable is only meaningful to single-configuration generators (such as Makefile Generators and Ninja) i.e. those which choose a single configuration when CMake runs to generate a build tree as opposed to multi-configuration generators which ...
cmake - What are CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Debug, Release ...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4875461912.02.2018 · IMPORTANT: CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE only makes sense for single-target generators, like Makefiles. It is not used for multi-target generators as those simply generate a build system capable of building all build types (debug, release, etc). CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is about, Optimization (level) [ -O0, -O1, -O2, -O3, -Ofast, -Os, -Oz, -Og, -O, -O4]