visual studio - how to generate pdb files for Release build with cmake flags?

Question

I am generating a visual studio solution using cmake. And now I want to generate pdb files for a Release build. (Why? because I want to have the symbols in case that the user found some bug)

I tried by setting the following flags without succeed:

set(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES ${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} CACHE STRING "Build Types" FORCE)

IF(WIN32)

set( CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_RELEASE "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/Release")
set( CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_RELEASE "/debug /INCREMENTAL")
set( CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS_RELEASE "/debug /INCREMENTAL")
set( CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS_RELEASE "/debug /INCREMENTAL")
set( CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE "/MD /Zi /O2 /Ob1 /D NDEBUG")
set( CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE "/MD /Zi /O2 /Ob1 /D NDEBUG")
ENDIF(WIN32)

It looks like Cmake is ignoring these sets: thanks in advance for the help!

Answer 1

I used the flags

set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE} /Zi")
set(CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS_RELEASE "${CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS_RELEASE} /DEBUG /OPT:REF /OPT:ICF")

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