Question

I’am using CMake to create a Visual Studio 2008 project. In this project I need to create a new configuration, called UnitaryTests. So, in CMakeLists.txt I put the line

set(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "Release;Debug;UnitaryTest" CACHE STRING "Configurations" FORCE) 

Later in the CMakeLists.txt file there is the following line:

target_link_libraries( ${PROJECT_NAME} ${ASTEK_LIBRARIES} )

to link with an external package. The variable ASTEK_LIBRARIES contains a text like:

debug;debug/libs;optimized;release/libs

My problem is that I must force the new configuration to only use the debug version of this package (currently it is using the release version). Do you know how to do this?

Note: it is not me that fill the variable ASTEK_LIBRARIES. It is created by a corporate script that I cannot change.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Use:

set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY DEBUG_CONFIGURATIONS "Debug;UnitaryTest")

If you also have RelWithDebInfo defined, this would belong in here too.

For further info run:

cmake --help-property DEBUG_CONFIGURATIONS