[CMake] What is the default build type?

[J Decker]

I like having something like this.... defines CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to be a
droplist of choices...

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if( NOT CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES )
set( CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES debug release )
endif( NOT CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES )

set( CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE release CACHE STRING "Cached cmake build type"  )
set_property(CACHE CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE PROPERTY STRINGS
${CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES} )


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https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/variable/CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES.html

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Michael Ellery <mellery451 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Jul 31, 2017, at 8:48 PM, Florian Lindner <mailinglists at xgm.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > ccmake shows CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE as unset. From the compile commands it
> looks like also nothing like Debug nor Release.
> >
> > Why is there no well-defined default set? How can I set a default?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Florian
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> my recollection is that an unspecified build type results in a build that
> has no optimizations and no debug symbols generated. I’m not sure what the
> motivation for those default flags is. If you want to default to DEBUG,
> something like this should work:
>
>     if (NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
>       set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Debug)
>     endif()
>
>
> -MIke
>
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