[cmake-developers] Unit testing of new generators

[Brad King]

On 05/01/2015 08:49 AM, Josh Green wrote:
> attempting to get a FASTBuild generator working for CMake.
> I've successfully managed to get the CMake project itself

Great!

> I'm now looking for some standard unit tests to run against
> the generator

You should be able to run the CMake test suite.  If you have
CMake itself building then just configure with BUILD_TESTING
set to ON and then run "ctest" in the build tree.  Otherwise
you can build CMake with another compiler and then configure
a CMake build tree with your new generator and add

 -DCMake_TEST_EXTERNAL_CMAKE=/path/to/other/bin

This will configure it to run the test suite against that binary
but with your new generator.

-Brad