[JENKINS-58351] buildType is used incorrectly for visual studio builds

I have created a Jenkins pipeline that covers both windows and linux.

However it appears that cmakeBuild does not use buildType correctly for visual studio

For Linux is correctly adds -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug or Release in the configure step

However for windows the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE variable is ignored:

17:47:24    Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:

17:47:24  

17:47:24      CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE

And subsequently in the --build step, the --config is unused. Resulting in a Debug-by-default build with the visual studio generator.

-config Debug or -config Release (depending on buildType should be added to the --build phase for windows (and CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE should not be used for visual studio generator)

 

The current workaround to this is adding --config Debug/Release explicitly in the steps:

steps: [[args: '--config Debug', withCmake: true]]

Which of course is less than ideal if the buildType property is available.

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Originally reported by dennis_cappendijk, imported from: buildType is used incorrectly for visual studio builds

• assignee: 15knots
  
• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): cmakebuilder-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 2
  
• imported: 20260124-160229
  

Raw content of original issue

I have created a Jenkins pipeline that covers both windows and linux.


However it appears that cmakeBuild does not use buildType correctly for visual studio


For Linux is correctly adds -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug or Release in the configure step


However for windows the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE variable is ignored:



17:47:24    Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:

17:47:24  

17:47:24      CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE





And subsequently in the --build step, the --config is unused. Resulting in a Debug-by-default build with the visual studio generator.


-config Debug or -config Release (depending on buildType should be added to the --build phase for windows (and CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE should not be used for visual studio generator)


 


The current workaround to this is adding --config Debug/Release explicitly in the steps:



steps: [[args: '--config Debug', withCmake: true]]





Which of course is less than ideal if the buildType property is available.

environment

```
Windows + visual studio 2015 / Linux + unix makefiles

Jenkins ver. 2.176.1

cmake builder plugin Version 2.6.2
```