[CMake] CMake could really use a debugger...

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Thu Apr 2 12:42:33 EDT 2009


Robert Dailey wrote:
> I can't tell you how hard it is to hunt down strange behavior in CMake. 
> Often times I would save myself 30 minutes of time on each of the hard 
> bug fixes if I could just step through each line of logic as it was 
> being executed and view the values of variables in a "watch" window of 
> some sort.
> 
> Does anyone know if such a CMake debugger exists? If not, are there 
> plans to make one officially by the CMake team or some third party?
> 
> 
Have you tried: cmake --trace

-Bill


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