[CMake] Fwd: Problems setting CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES for Visual Studio

[Petr Kmoch]

Hi Janosch.

A solution to this problem which works for me is: if the configurations are
not those I want, set them correctly and abort the generation (with a help
message).

I put the following code into the CMakeList after the call to project():

if(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES AND NOT CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES MATCHES
FullDebug)
  set(cfgs ${CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES})
  list(REMOVE_ITEM cfgs MinSizeRel)
  list(APPEND cfg FullDebug)
  set(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES ${cfgs} CACHE STRING "List of supported
configurations." FORCE)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "List of configurations was reset, please re-run
CMake.")
endif()

Hope this helps.

Petr


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:14 PM, gaga bla <gagabla0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Eric,
> thanks for your reply, i tried this, but in my case it doesn't work. I
> made a function that first sets the configuration types (using your line of
> code) and then calls the project function. Using this function instead of
> the project function itself, still all configurations are beeing generated.
> I browsed through the cmake sources and modules, but i coudn't find the
> place that reintroduces those configurations.
> It looks like a bug to me, later on i will try to produce an example.
>
> Kind regards
> Janosch
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Eric Clark <eclark at ara.com> wrote:
>
>>  Our projects limit the types to just Debug and Release. However, what I
>> found was that you had to set the variable before every call to project(…).
>> What we did was we created a module called BuildTypes.cmake and include it
>> first thing in every list file. The file has one line of code in it that
>> looks like this:****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> set(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES Debug Release CACHE TYPE INTERNAL FORCE)***
>> *
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> This does the trick for us. Hope this helps…****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Eric****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *From:* cmake-bounces at cmake.org [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] *On
>> Behalf Of *gaga bla
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:55 PM
>> *To:* cmake at cmake.org
>> *Subject:* [CMake] Problems setting CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES for Visual
>> Studio****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Hello, I have problems reducing available configuration types for a
>> Visual Studio project.****
>>
>> No matter what I do, the project always contains all four configuration
>> types.****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> I have two files involved, I tried to strip everything that seemed to be
>> unimportant:****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> CmakeLists.txt (Main file):****
>>
>> ------------------------------------****
>>
>> include("... Helpers.cmake")****
>>
>> configureMyProject("MyProject")****
>>
>> message("Config types (outside): ${CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES}")****
>>
>> ------------------------------------****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Helpers.cmake:****
>>
>> ------------------------------------****
>>
>> if(__myhelpers)****
>>
>>                 return()****
>>
>> endif()****
>>
>> set(__myhelpers YES)****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> function(configureMyProject MY_NAME ........)****
>>
>>   set(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "Debug;RelWithDebInfo" CACHE STRING ""
>> FORCE)****
>>
>>   message("Config types (before): ${CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES}") ****
>>
>>   project(${MY_NAME}) ****
>>
>>   message("Config types (after): ${CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES}") ****
>>
>>   set(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "Debug;RelWithDebInfo" CACHE STRING ""
>> FORCE) ****
>>
>>   message("Config types (after 2): ${CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES}")****
>>
>>   ...****
>>
>>   add_library(...)****
>>
>>   ...****
>>
>> endfunction()****
>>
>> ------------------------------------****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> I then get the following output:****
>>
>> ------------------------------------****
>>
>> Config types (before): Debug;RelWithDebInfo****
>>
>> Config types (after): Debug;Release;MinSizeRel;RelWithDebInfo****
>>
>> Config types (after 2): Debug;RelWithDebInfo****
>>
>> Config types (outside): Debug;RelWithDebInfo****
>>
>> ------------------------------------****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> So it seems to me, that the call of the project-function resetted the
>> configuration types and created then the project accordingly.****
>>
>> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? Does anyone know a
>> workaround?****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Kind regards****
>>
>> Janosch Scharlipp****
>>
>
>
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