[Chicken-users] debug on GCC

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> On 9/7/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> > There is no notion of "Debug" vs. "Release" when building with GCC.
> > There are only static vs. dynamic libraries and exes, all of 'em
> > optimized, none of 'em debuggable.
>
> But cmake has a notion of this. CMake supports operations
> like LINK_FLAGS(?) that can be qualified with the build type.

They don't currently work outside of MSVC.  I believe someone made a 
feature request to have them work generally.  Can't remember the status 
of that.

Do you actually want debug builds of GCC stuff?  It doesn't look like 
they ever previously existed in Chicken, so why now?  I think shipping 
Debug on MSVC is just a matter of cultural expectation, not actual 
need.  If you don't have at least Debug and Release directories, the 
MSVC crowd will look at you funny.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every