How do I force an EXE import to always use RELEASE?

[ben.boeckel (Ben Boeckel (Kitware))]

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How do I export (or import) just the Release version of an exeutable

I’ve followed the instructions for creating relocatable export packages as defined in the documenation at this location [https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/guide/importing-exporting/index.html#exporting-targets] We have a tool that generates Release and Debug images of the executables and creates the cmake files that allow me to use find_package to get an imported exe target to use. I LOVE THIS! However, I only want to use the Release version of the executables. We may want to use the Debug v…