Why are my breakpoints not hit in CLion?

In case this helps someone else, it turned out that my (somewhat embarrassing) issue was that I was hitting Run instead of Debug. So in the Run menu don't use the play icon, instead choose the cute bug icon instead. Choosing Run was causing it to automatically build the non-debug build so breakpoints wouldn't work. Once I started choosing the bug icon, the breakpoints worked like a charm.

I had the same issue today. I figured out that the configuration for the project was not set to Debug. After setting the configuration to Debug all the breakpoints are hit.

Please ensure that you have following configuration:

• Select the MenuItem Run/EditConfigurations
• Select the right Target
• Select Debug as Configuration

Now the breakpoints should be hit.