[Question] How to compile the Release build?

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#1,628 opened on Jul 19, 2024 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: cmake, cpp, unreal-engine
Domain: build-system

Research direction

Start by reproducing the documented CMake configure and build commands for the firebase_analytics target with CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release on Windows. Inspect the generated Debug and Release output locations and the MSVC iterator-debug-level settings, then verify that both configurations produce libraries that link with the corresponding Unreal Engine build without LNK2038.

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[REQUIRED] Please fill in the following fields:

Pre-built SDK from the website or open-source from this repo: build locally
Firebase C++ SDK version: 11.8.0
Main Firebase Components in concern: Mainly analytics (Auth, Database, etc.)
Other Firebase Components in use: -
Platform you are using the C++ SDK on: Windows, VS 2019 (build tools v142) and Unreal Engine 4.27
Platform you are targeting: Windows

[REQUIRED] Please describe the question here:

After fullfilling the requirements, I run the build with these command

> mkdir firebase_analytics_build && cd firebase_analytics_build
> cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR="C:\Users\herpi\Downloads\OpenSSL-3.3.0-Win-pc064\OpenSSL\OpenSSL\3.3.0" -A x64 ..
> cmake --build . --target firebase_analytics -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

The lib file is generated but it's always under the Debug prefix directory. In my case, this debug library will lead to this error while linking the library in my UE4 project.

firebase_app.lib(variant.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for '_ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL': value '2' doesn't match value '0' in SharedPCH.UnrealEd.ShadowErrors.h.obj

How to build both Release and Debug?

Thank you in advance.

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