windows - How to change the build type to Release mode in cmake?

Question

I am trying to build a project in Release mode. By default it is built in debug mode. I am setting the variable CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to "Release" in CMakeLists.txt. But it is still building the project in debug mode. When I pass "Release" as the build type in the CMake command, it still does not work.

The CMake command that I am using is:

cmake -G"Visual Studio 10" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
  -H"source_path" -B"Build path"

Please provide a solution if any.

Answer 1

To change the build type, on Windows, it must be done at build time:

cmake --build {DIR} --config Release

By default it's Debug. I'm still looking for a way of changing this default. CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE doesn't work of course, and tweaking CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES doesn't work either, obviously for the same reason, they only apply for Unix makefiles, not for Visual projects.