Advanced CMake Project – RSP File Deleted on linker success

[JFerraris]

Hello!

I am not exactly sure whether this is a bug or a known feature, but the generated rsp file (linker arguments) in a CMake project gets automatically deleted on a successful build. The only way to get it to stay (that I know of) is to cause a linker error purposely which keeps it lying in the build directory, but otherwise it is deleted on successful build.I looked through almost all the preferences and VisualGDB properties that I could to see if there was any settings to turn off the deletion but I could not find anything.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could either add an option to keep this file, or to even just never remove it because I don’t see any need for it to be removed.

Appreciate your time! Thank you.

[support]

Hi,

This is handled directly by CMake, rather than VisualGDB. Feel free to browse through CMake source code to see if there is a way to modify this behavior.

[JFerraris]

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction! I found this link that explained it all, ninja was the culprit here. To get ninja to not delete the rsp file I used the -d keeprsp switch in the Ninja Options in VisualGDB Properties:

https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/20277

Thank you for the help!

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