<div dir="ltr">As I'm now deep in tracing through 80K lines of cmake --trace output, man I'd love some sort of CMake debugger!<div><br></div><div style>Actually if you use Emacs you can kinda sorta do tracing -- run CMake with the --trace parameter in the compile bufffer (i.e. alt-x compile command) and then the Emacs next-error steps a line at a time through the trace output, just like a source debugger.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>But it doesn't give you the option of seeing the values of CMake variables, or to change them.</div><div style><br></div><div style>I know this is asking for a major feature change, but CMake has grown up. We now have multi-thousand-line CMake build systems, and the only debugging tool we have is MESSAGE()</div>
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