[cmake-developers] Cross compile tests on open.cdash.org

[Bach, Pascal]

Hi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmake-developers [mailto:cmake-developers-bounces at cmake.org]
> On Behalf Of Bill Hoffman
> Sent: Freitag, 29. August 2014 17:35
> To: cmake-developers at cmake.org
> Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] Cross compile tests on open.cdash.org
> 
> On 8/29/2014 9:47 AM, Bach, Pascal wrote:
> > Hi Everybody
> >
> > I'm interested in cross compilation, and am already using it extensively for
> Linux and Embedded Linux.
> > But now I ran into some problems cross compiling for Windows Compact
> Embedded 2013 using Visual Studio.
> > After some discussion on IRC, Nils Gladitz pointed out that there are no
> cross compilation tests on the public CDash
> (http://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=CMake).
> >
> > It might be worth to start a discussion on that topic and maybe find a way
> to improve that.
> >
> > One question is if there is already somebody working in this direction or
> maybe even already has a running cross compilation test using CMake?
> > What would be necessary to extend the current test for a cross compilation
> scenario?
> >
> > With best regards,
> > Pascal Bach
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is a good idea.   There has been some recent work on the windows
> phone support: Tests/VSWinStorePhone/.   However, I would think what you
> would want would be a more comprehensive test of CMake.  Most of the
> tests run executables that are built.  We would either have to not do
> that, or run them on a simulator or have an actual device that the tests
> are pushed to for running.  The other option would be to create one or
> more specific cross compile tests.

I would for a start suggest to run the tests in a simulator.
The simplest thing to set up would be to have a cross compile on linux and the run the tests using qemu.

> It would require someone to setup dashboard clients as well:
> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/testing.html.   Would you be able
> to run clients like that?

I'm currently clarifying if we can provide some build/test machines.
I would like to be able to provide a 
Linux x86 -> Linux ARM
and a
Windows 64bit -> Windows CE ARM 
build including target/simulator to run the tests on.
But I can't promise yet.


- Pascal