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Build Configurations

This section lists all of Intricate's build configurations and their intended purposes.

Configurations

Intricate has 4 different build configurations which can be selected from inside Visual Studio.

Configuration Symbols Optimizations Runtime Console Asserts Logging Profiling Defines
Debug On Off Debug Visible Enabled All Disabled _IE_DEBUG
Dev On On Release Visible Enabled All Disabled _IE_DEV
Profiling Off On Release Visible Enabled All Enabled _IE_PROFILING
Release Off On Release Hidden Disabled File only Disabled _IE_RELEASE

Note

Intricate targets the x86_64 architecture only.

When to use each configuration:

  • Debug: When you need breakpoints, stack traces, hunting memory leaks and or external debug symbols.
    • Performance in this configuration is significantly slower than in Dev and Release.
  • Dev: For everyday general development and testing.
    • This is the configuration that should be used for 98.992% of development.
  • Profiling: When something is running unusually slow and you need to figure out which function is the culprit.
    • This configuration measures the time taken for each function to execute when called and throws the results into a series of JSON files which can be viewed in your browser's tracing tool. (e.g. chrome://tracing or brave://tracing)
    • Performance in this configuration is massively slower than in all the others due to the overhead of profiling.
  • Release: For official distribution. (note that a 5th configuration named "Dist" may be added soon)