How to change the active solution configuration of visual studio

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Hi there,

I’ve searched for this but didn’t find the solution.

Is there any way of changing the active solution configuration of visual studio?
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When I open the visual studio solution I want to have RelWithDebugInfo active instead of Debug.
I’ve tried the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE var but it is ignored when using ‘Visual Studio 16 2019 generator’ (at least)

Thank you

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You can change the order of the items in CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES. The first one is the “default” in the IDE.

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Thank you for the fast answer.

However it seems that it didn’t work for visual studio.

I put this:

    message(">>> ${CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES}")
    list(REMOVE_ITEM CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "RelWithDebInfo")
    message(">>>2 ${CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES}")
    list(PREPEND CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "RelWithDebInfo")
    message(">>>3  ${CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES}")

And I got the following output:

>>> Debug;Release;MinSizeRel;RelWithDebInfo
>>>2 Debug;Release;MinSizeRel
>>>3  RelWithDebInfo;Debug;Release;MinSizeRel

I deleted my build folder and recreate everything from scratch and When I open the VS I have the same thing:

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Am I doing something wrong? Or missing something?
Thank you

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Hmm. That looks awfully alphabetical :confused: .

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Lol! yes.

As I said before when using -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo I got the follwoing warning:

CMake Warning:
  Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:
                                                            
    CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE

Is there any other way? Or this simply can’t be done using cmake?

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CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE only affects single-config generators and VIsual Studio is not one of them. There’s probably some way to control it, but CMake doesn’t expose an option. I suggest filing an issue.