cmake - make sure the VS default configuration is set to Release

[mkruselj]

Instead of Debug.

[baconpaul]

From googling I am not sure this is easy. Pushing it to 1.7.n. (the pipelines all explicitly set their config of course).

[baconpaul]

We can

set( CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "Release" )

and then only Release is there. But if I set it to "Release;Debug" (so release is first) cmake still picks debug as the default for me in my test.

[mkruselj]

Do we really really need the debug one? I recall you saying they're not really that useful, for some reason or another.

[mvf]

This can probably be closed.

Debug is a Visual Studio default, independent from CMake. It remembers the last-used solution configuration in its own (binary) .suo config file, which CMake doesn't generate. So indeed, the only way to make Visual Studio default to Release is removing the other build types. But with Debug builds starting to see some use lately, this doesn't seem feasible or even desirable anymore.

[baconpaul]

Agree