Build only debug by Visual Studio generator in CMakeSettings

[tav7c3]

Hello!

There is a configuration

• azure-devops.cmakesettings.json

{
 "configurations": [
   {
      "name": "x64-windows",
      "configurationType": "Release",
      "inheritEnvironments": [ "msvc_x64" ],
      "buildCommandArgs": "",
      "cmakeCommandArgs": "",
      "ctestCommandArgs": "",
      "generator": "Visual Studio 16 2019 Win64"
   }
 ]
}

• azure-pipelines.yml

  - task: run-cmake@0
    displayName: 'Run CMake with CMakeSettings.json'
    inputs:
      cmakeListsOrSettingsJson: 'CMakeSettingsJson'
      cmakeSettingsJsonPath: 'azure-devops.cmakesettings.json'
      useVcpkgToolchainFile: false
      configurationRegexFilter: '^(x64-windows)$'

CMake configure stage is correct:

Overriding build directory to: 'C:\agent\_work\1\a\x64-windows'
"C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release C:\agent\_work\1\s
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.18362.0 to target Windows 10.0.17763.
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.24.28314.0
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/BuildTools/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.24.28314/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/BuildTools/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.24.28314/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED_ATTR
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED_ATTR - Failed
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED
-- Performing Test COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED - Success
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
CMake Warning:
  Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:

    CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE


-- Build files have been written to: C:/agent/_work/1/a/x64-windows

But build stage is build Debug configuration:

Building with CMake in build directory 'C:\agent\_work\1\a\x64-windows' ...
"C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" --build . --
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.4.0+e901037fe for .NET Framework
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  Checking Build System
  Building Custom Rule C:/agent/_work/1/s/CMakeLists.txt
  main.cpp
     Creating library C:/agent/_work/1/a/x64-windows/Debug/sample-addin.lib and object C:/agent/_work/1/a/x64-windows/Debug/sample-addin.exp
  sample-addin.vcxproj -> C:\agent\_work\1\a\x64-windows\bin\Debug\sample-addin.dll
  Building Custom Rule C:/agent/_work/1/s/test/CMakeLists.txt
  main.cpp
  test-sample-addin.vcxproj -> C:\agent\_work\1\a\x64-windows\bin\Debug\test-sample-addin.exe
  Building Custom Rule C:/agent/_work/1/s/CMakeLists.txt

This is because no configuration is specified in cmake --build
Similar problem

buildWithCMakeArgs: '--config Release' is ignored for CMakeSettingsJson

Сan you fix it please. Ninja generator doesn't always fit, and I'm not very into JS to fix it.
buildWithCMakeArgs

Thanks.

[lukka]

Right, the --config Release is missing indeed. It should match the configurationType value. This should be fixed in the run-cmake task.

p.s. If you switch to Ninja this would solve the problem, and you would get faster builds too.

[tav7c3]

Thanks for the recommendation, but Ninja does not support toolset specification (

Does run-cmake task support "environments" in CMakeSettingsJson? Could use this solution.

[lukka]

I am going to add a test to verify the whether the environment is correctly set up.
What compiler are you using? On windows the task sets the environment of the VS Developer Command Prompt, it would work if you use msvc with Ninja.