[Cmake] Why debug info for release mode application?

[William A. Hoffman]

I have fixed the bug in CVS, and it should be fixed in 1.8.2 when that
is released.

-Bill


At 03:29 AM 10/31/2003, Reinhold Füreder wrote:
>Hi,
>
>(Windows2000/XP, CMake 1.8.1, MSVC++ 6 SP 5, wxWindows 2.4.?, ...) When
>using CMake to build an wxWindows-GUI application (statically) linking
>with VTK, Crypto++ and of course wxWindows the final .dsp has the debug
>info switched on, even for the release mode application. Thus, when
>compiling we get a lot of the following warnings:
>
>Cryptlib.lib (...obj): warning LNK4099: PDB .. Was not found ... Linking
>object as if no debug info.
>
>As we do not want the debug info in the release mode this switch should
>not be on (it is the /debug option in LINK32 section in .dsp file). (And
>there is no adequate .pdb file in the otherwise correct location pointed
>out by the linking warning.)
>
>The corresponding CMakeLists.txt contains:
>---
>ADD_EXECUTABLE (OurApp WIN32 ${SRC} ${HDR}) 
> 
>TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES (OurApp
>    debug ${CryptoPP_DEBUG_LIBRARIES} 
>    optimized ${CryptoPP_LIBRARIES}   
>
>    ...
>
>    ${WXWINDOWS_LIBRARY}   
>) 
>---
>
>The CMake flag WIN32 for the ADD_EXECUTABLE is necessary because it is
>not a console application. If we omit this flag the debug info is
>switched off (but of course, then the compiling fails...). If we remove
>the debug info switch manually in MSVC++ project settings we can compile
>and link the application without any problems.
>
>Maybe it helps but in the concerned section in the .dsp file, the line
>containing the unwanted /debug is a duplicate of a line without this
>flag:
>---
>!IF  "$(CFG)" == "OurApp - Win32 Release" 
>
># ADD BASE LINK32 kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
>comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib
>odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib /nologo /subsystem:windows /machine:I386
>/IGNORE:4089 
># ADD LINK32 kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib
>advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib
>odbccp32.lib /nologo /subsystem:windows /debug /machine:I386
>/IGNORE:4089
>...
>---
>
>And all ..._LINKER_FLAGS_RELEASE are empty; in other words, do not
>contain /debug as ..._LINKER_FLAGS_DEBUG or
>..._LINKER_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO, for example.
>
>
>Thanks,
>        Reinhold
>
>
>------------------------
>Reinhold Füreder
>School of Engineering and Computer Science
>University of Exeter, UK
>
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