[Insight-users] debug postfix

[Hauke Heibel]

Hi Rupert,

We just finished a workshop where we were discussing the exact same 
issue with a few participants and also Julien.

 From the workshop I can tell you that there are quite a few people who 
are looking into this feature. Current solutions I have heard of consist 
of either building static libs or creating special (e.g. batch) scripts 
to change the path to point to the correct library directory 
(debug/release/...). In my humblest opinion both of them are no real 
solutions...

To hear from the CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX option is really great! Nobody of 
us knew about the feature.

So if you are asking for a poll, I clearly vote for adding the postfix 
option into the CMake configuration as an additional option.

Regards,
Hauke

Rupert Brooks wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have found it useful in the past to build my debug libraries with a
> "d" appended to the end of the name.  CMake supports this with the
> CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX option, so i modify my ITK CMakeLists.txt file to
> have the POSTFIX set.  This causes several problems, which could
> probably be fixed with some effort.
>
> My question to the list is - does anyone else think this is useful -
> as in should it be a general technique added to the ITK build process?
>  Does anyone have a better solution already?  Should this be something
> considered for ITK 3.8?
>
> The reason i did this was so that i could install both debug and
> release libraries system wide, and walk through the ITK debug code
> with my debug build and get the speed from the release code with my
> release build.  This is particularly useful on Windows, where one can
> make the debug and release builds from the same visual studio project
> - and therefore they have to point to the same ITK build.  Other
> solutions to the same problem are of course welcome :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Rupert B

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