[CMake] Need help with COMPILE_DEFINITIONS_<CONFIG>

[Carl Poirier]

I got a reply on the bug tracker. It's a normal and documented behavior.

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

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Thanks for the information. I opened a bug ticket here
> <http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15750>.
>
> Carl
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Hendrik Sattler <post at hendrik-sattler.de>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Am 14. September 2015 22:25:00 MESZ, schrieb Pau Garcia i Quiles <
>> pgquiles at elpauer.org>:
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >Have you tried
>> >
>> >set_property(TARGET ${PrjName0} PROPERTY COMPILE_DEFINITIONS_DEBUG
>> >-DATEST)
>>
>> That would be the right thing for add_definitions() but not here.
>> He could try with generator expressions though.
>>
>> >
>> >On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Carl Poirier
>> ><carl.poirier.2 at gmail.com>
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi folks,
>> >>
>> >> I need some help setting the COMPILE_DEFINITIONS_<CONFIG>. I'm using
>> >the
>> >> Visual Studio 2008 generator. I use this command to do so which I
>> >took in
>> >> the notes <http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_2.6_Notes> when the
>> >feature
>> >> was added:
>> >>
>> >> set_property(TARGET ${PrjName0} PROPERTY COMPILE_DEFINITIONS_DEBUG
>> >ATEST)
>> >>
>> >> Then, once the solution and project is generated, I go into the
>> >project
>> >> properties under the C++ preprocessor and I can't see the define.
>> >Removing
>> >> the configuration name does set it correctly for all of them, so it
>> >leads
>> >> me to believe the rest of my CMakeLists.txt is fine:
>> >>
>> >> set_property(TARGET ${PrjName0} PROPERTY COMPILE_DEFINITIONS ATEST)
>> >>
>> >> So is this supposed to work?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you,
>> >>
>> >> Carl
>> >>
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