Can Cmake generate a single makefile that supports both debug and release
c, c++, cmake
Solution
As far as I know, this cannot be achieved using a single set of build scripts. However, what you can do is have two sub-directories of your working area:
build/
build/debug
build/release
Then do:
$ cd build
$
$ cd build/debug
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ../..
$ make
$
$ cd ../release
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../..
$ make
If necessary, you can add another build script in the `build` directory as such:
#!/bin/sh
cd debug && make && cd ..
cd release && make && cd ..
Problem
It seems like we need to create separate folder for each build type (debug/release), run cmake on each, and generate separate makefile for debug/release configuration. Is it possible to create one single makefile using cmake that supports both debug/release configuration at the same time and when we actually run "make" that will create separate folders for the intermediate and final products (like the dlls, exe).