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user1235648

Reputation:

How to force CMake to link with debug libraries in a new Visual Studio configuration?

I'am using CMake to create a Visual Studio 2008 project. In this project I need to create a new configuration, called UnitaryTests. So, in CMakeLists.txt I put the line

set(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "Release;Debug;UnitaryTest" CACHE STRING "Configurations" FORCE)

Later in the CMakeLists.txt file there is the following line:

target_link_libraries( ${PROJECT_NAME} ${ASTEK_LIBRARIES} )

to link with an external package. The variable ASTEK_LIBRARIES contains a text like:

debug;debug/libs;optimized;release/libs

My problem is that I must force the new configuration to only use the debug version of this package (currently it is using the release version). Do you know how to do this?

Note: it is not me that fill the variable ASTEK_LIBRARIES. It is created by a corporate script that I cannot change.

Thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1919

Answers (2)

Aralox
Aralox

Reputation: 1459

To force target_link_libraries() to link against a different library on a per-target basis, replace keywords as appropriate before linking. The following example shows how you would replace 'optimized' by 'general' to force a debug build to link against a release (optimized) library:

string(REPLACE "optimized" "general" MODIFIED_LIBS "${MY_LIBS}")
target_link_libraries(MyTarget ${MODIFIED_LIBS})

E.g. For MY_LIBS = "optimized;mylib.lib;debug;mylib_d.lib", MODIFIED_LIBS will be "general;mylib.lib;debug;mylib_d.lib". In this example, the 'general' keyword will cause both libraries to be linked against in your target during a debug build.

See https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/target_link_libraries.html for more information.

Upvotes: 0

Fraser
Fraser

Reputation: 78280

Use:

set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY DEBUG_CONFIGURATIONS "Debug;UnitaryTest")

If you also have RelWithDebInfo defined, this would belong in here too.

For further info run:

cmake --help-property DEBUG_CONFIGURATIONS

Upvotes: 5

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