[CMake] CMake and Visual Studio multiconfig solution

[Iosif Neitzke]

DEBUG_POSTFIX?

http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.3/prop_tgt/DEBUG_POSTFIX.html

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Mauro Ziliani
<mauro.ziliani.tmp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
> My name is mauro and i am a freelance programmer and I work different
> platforms: windows and Linux.
> I'm trying cmake 3.3.1 and I am in trouble to do this.
>
> I need to compile my app with visual studio and achieve the follow behavior.
> If I compile the app in debug configuration I need to append the suffix _dbg
> to the app name, nothing in release configuration.
> That is, if the app's name is test in debug configuration I'd like to obtain
> test_dbg.exe.
>
> Using makefile and make command I can obtain the same behavior by
> conditional compilation with command
>
> make BUILD=debug ====> test_dbg.exe
>
> My CMakeLists.txt is
>
> --------
> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3)
>
> Project(test_vs)
>
> add_executable(test test.cpp)
>
> set_target_properties(test PROPERTIES DEBUG_SUFFIX "_dbg")
> ------
>
> But it doesn't work.
>
> Either for debug and release configuration the app's name is test.exe
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best regards,
>    Mauro
>
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