On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 4:18 PM, J Decker <d3c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> <marcus.hanw...@kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 3:03 AM, Bo Zhou <bo.schwarzst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It depends on the Generator.
>>>
>>> To the Makefile, the actual type was controlled by the compiler options. If
>>> you don't specific any type, usually it means non-debug and
>>> non-optimization because the CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS is empty as default. This is
>>> critical, so usually people should specific the actual type they want to
>>> build.
>>>
>>> To the generator of the IDE, such as Visual Studio and Xcode, the
>>> CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE doesn't make sense but we have to use
>>> CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES, then CMake will create the several configuration
>>> sets for the IDE from the CMAKE_C|CXX_FLAGS_{CONFIG} .
>>
>>
>> This thread inspired me to write up how we have been doing it in some of the
>> projects I work on for quite a while now,
>>
>> https://blog.kitware.com/cmake-and-the-default-build-type/
>>
> These should use lower case 'debug' 'release' etc. Because if it's not VS,
> it's probably also not windows, and case matters.
>
No, camel case works just fine. I took a quick look and lowercase will
work, as well as all caps. I have used this for many years on Linux
builds with Makefile/Ninja without issue.
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