# compiler warnings based on: https://lefticus.gitbooks.io/cpp-best-practices/content/02-Use_the_Tools_Available.html # only enable warnings for debug builds if (NOT ${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} STREQUAL Debug) return() endif () set(BASE_WARNINGS -Wall -Wextra # reasonable and standard -Wpedantic # warn if non-standard c++ is used -Werror=shadow # warn the user if a variable shadows one from a parent context -Wunused # warn on anything being unused -Werror=non-virtual-dtor # warn the user if a class with virtual functions has a non-virtual dtor -Werror=overloaded-virtual # warn if you overload (not override) a virtual function -Werror=old-style-cast # warn for c-style casts -Wcast-align # warn for potential performance problem casts -Wconversion # warn on type conversions that may lose data -Wsign-conversion # warn on sign conversions -Wdouble-promotion # warn if float is implicit promoted to double -Wnull-dereference # warn if a null dereference is detected -Wformat=2 # warn on security issues around functions that format output (ie printf) ) set(GCC_WARNINGS -Wmisleading-indentation # (only in GCC >= 6.0) warn if indentation implies blocks where blocks do not exist -Wduplicated-cond # (only in GCC >= 6.0) warn if if / else chain has duplicated conditions -Wduplicated-branches # (only in GCC >= 7.0) warn if if / else branches have duplicated code -Wlogical-op # (only in GCC) warn about logical operations being used where bitwise were probably wanted -Wnull-dereference # (only in GCC >= 6.0) warn if a null dereference is detected -Wuseless-cast # (only in GCC >= 4.8) warn if you perform a cast to the same type ) if (${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID} MATCHES Clang) message(STATUS "Adding more ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID} compiler warnings") add_compile_options(${BASE_WARNINGS}) elseif (${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID} MATCHES GNU) message(STATUS "Adding more ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID} compiler warnings") add_compile_options(${BASE_WARNINGS} ${GCC_WARNINGS}) endif ()