Build Configurations

Introduction#

This topic shows the uses of different CMake configurations like Debug or Release, in different environments.

Setting a Release/Debug configuration

CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.8.11)
SET(PROJ_NAME "myproject")
PROJECT(${PROJ_NAME})

# Configuration types
SET(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "Debug;Release" CACHE STRING "Configs" FORCE)
IF(DEFINED CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE AND CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_GREATER "2.8")
  SET_PROPERTY(CACHE CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE PROPERTY STRINGS  ${CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES})
ENDIF()

SET(${PROJ_NAME}_PATH_INSTALL     "/opt/project"                     CACHE PATH "This directory contains installation Path")
SET(CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX "d")

# Install
#---------------------------------------------------#
INSTALL(TARGETS ${PROJ_NAME}
    DESTINATION  "${${PROJ_NAME}_PATH_INSTALL}/lib/${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}/"
    )

Performin the following builds will generate two different (‘/opt/myproject/lib/Debug’ ‘/opt/myproject/lib/Release’) folders with the libraries:

$ cd /myproject/build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cmake _DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
$ make
$ sudo make install