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

Rolf Eike Beer eike at sf-mail.de
Mon Sep 1 04:35:34 EDT 2014


Am 29.08.2014 17:35, schrieb Bill Hoffman:
> 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?

> 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.
> 
> 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 think I will be able to provide some Linux x86_64 -> * cross-builds, 
likely ARM and MIPS, maybe something more.

Eike



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