Any way to determine build type (DEBUG | RELEASE) at runtime?

DaveB 5 months ago

I have some UI elements I want to include in Debug only builds, is it possible to determine this at runtime?

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flowstate 5 months ago

Use the :debug and :release annotations.

e.g. You could use these annotations to create a global boolean variable which indicates whether the app was built as debug or release.

(:debug) var isDebug as Boolean = true;
(:release) var isDebug as Boolean = false;

DaveB 5 months ago in reply to flowstate

Great, thanks thats just what I needed

flocsy🤠 5 months ago in reply to flowstate

even better: do it a const. There's no reason to "waste" a variable for this.

- It's value is set during compile time and can't change. It's a classic const.

- when you use it, it can save memory in the generated code:

if (IS_DEBUG) {
// ... code
}

The above code would be included in the production binary if you used a variable, while with the new compiler (since 7.x) it would be removed.