CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE¶
Specifies the build type on single-configuration generators.
This statically specifies what build type (configuration) will be
built in this build tree. Possible values are empty, Debug, Release,
RelWithDebInfo, MinSizeRel, … This variable is only meaningful to
single-configuration generators (such as Makefile Generators and
Ninja) i.e. those which choose a single configuration when CMake
runs to generate a build tree as opposed to multi-configuration generators
which offer selection of the build configuration within the generated build
environment. There are many per-config properties and variables
(usually following clean SOME_VAR_<CONFIG> order conventions), such as
CMAKE_C_FLAGS_<CONFIG>, specified as uppercase:
CMAKE_C_FLAGS_[DEBUG|RELEASE|RELWITHDEBINFO|MINSIZEREL|...]. For example,
in a build tree configured to build type Debug, CMake will see to
having CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG settings get
added to the CMAKE_C_FLAGS settings. See
also CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES.