[CMake] msvc postfix conventions

frederic heem frederic.heem at telsey.it
Wed Aug 2 03:03:24 EDT 2006


Why not following the boost (www.boost.org) naming convention ? 

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 22:55, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> I'm trying to decide reasonable defaults for the various _POSTFIX
> variables under msvc.  My guesses:
> DEBUG_POSTFIX "d"
> RELEASE_POSTFIX ""
> MINSIZEREL_POSTFIX "?"
> RELWITHDEBINFO_POSTFIX "?"
>
> The conventions are eluding my Google searches.  For all I know there
> may not be many conventions, as keeping debug and release builds in
> different directories is a common practice.
>
> I have often seen "s" used for static builds.
>
> The msvc libraries such as msvcrt.lib have some conventions:
> "t" = multithreaded, dynamic link
> "mt" = multithreaded, static link
> "p" = Standard C++ Library
>
> Another question is when combining these 1-or-2-letter postfixes, is if
> they are combined in any particular order.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon Van Every
>
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