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| author | Kyle Edwards <kyle.edwards@kitware.com> | 2020-01-17 16:00:28 -0500 |
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| committer | Kyle Edwards <kyle.edwards@kitware.com> | 2020-01-22 10:26:21 -0500 |
| commit | 8337ed0d731f869823efcacf2460a4efbf74a991 (patch) | |
| tree | caf2baf60879268e6725235e43c28ea35aeaf0e9 /Help/generator | |
| parent | 110037369d9be6c346f3de5074bb2e4d47c7e36c (diff) | |
| download | cmake-8337ed0d731f869823efcacf2460a4efbf74a991.tar.gz | |
Ninja Multi-Config: Add variable to control aliases in build.ninja
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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/generator/Ninja Multi-Config.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Help/generator/Ninja Multi-Config.rst b/Help/generator/Ninja Multi-Config.rst index 248eb0534d..41cd5c26c4 100644 --- a/Help/generator/Ninja Multi-Config.rst +++ b/Help/generator/Ninja Multi-Config.rst @@ -78,4 +78,13 @@ targets built with the generated code. As a convenience, ``Ninja Multi-Config`` offers a :variable:`CMAKE_NINJA_MULTI_DEFAULT_BUILD_TYPE` setting. If this variable is specified, a ``build.ninja`` file will be generated which points to the -specified ``build-<Config>.ninja`` file. +specified ``build-<Config>.ninja`` file. In addition, if +:variable:`CMAKE_NINJA_MULTI_DEFAULT_BUILD_TYPE` is used in conjunction with +:variable:`CMAKE_NINJA_MULTI_CROSS_CONFIG_ENABLE`, you can also specify +:variable:`CMAKE_NINJA_MULTI_DEFAULT_BUILD_ALIAS`, which changes the config +of the ``<target>`` targets in ``build.ninja``. For example, if you set +:variable:`CMAKE_NINJA_MULTI_DEFAULT_BUILD_TYPE` to ``Release``, but set +:variable:`CMAKE_NINJA_MULTI_DEFAULT_BUILD_ALIAS` to ``Debug`` or ``all``, +all ``<target>`` aliases in ``build.ninja`` will resolve to ``<target>:Debug`` +or ``<target>:all``, but custom commands will still use the ``Release`` +configuration. |