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Asked: 2026-06-01T16:27:37+00:00

It seems like we need to create separate folder for each build type (debug/release),

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It seems like we need to create separate folder for each build type (debug/release), run cmake on each, and generate separate makefile for debug/release configuration. Is it possible to create one single makefile using cmake that supports both debug/release configuration at the same time and when we actually run “make” that will create separate folders for the intermediate and final products (like the dlls, exe).

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  1. Editorial Team

    As far as I know, this cannot be achieved using a single set of build scripts. However, what you can do is have two sub-directories of your working area:

    build/
build/debug
build/release

    Then do:

    $ cd build
$
$ cd build/debug
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ../..
$ make
$
$ cd ../release
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../..
$ make

    If necessary, you can add another build script in the build directory as such:

    #!/bin/sh
cd debug   && make && cd ..
cd release && make && cd ..
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