Is there a possibility to debug CMakeLists.txt
files (at least listing of variables) except for the message statement?
There is no interactive debugger for CMake, however there are also the flags -Wdev
, --debug-output
and --trace
which might help. Also remember to check the log files CMakeFiles\CMakeOutput.log
and CMakeFiles\CMakeError.log
which mainly collect outputs of processes called by CMake (for example while checking for presence of a type or header).
Since version 3.7, CMake now officially supports a "server mode" so integration in IDEs is likely to improve in the near future. Initial support exists both in Qt Creator and Visual Studio 2017 RC