[cmake-developers] Unit testing of new generators

[Josh Green]

Ok great.

Yes the generator is a multi-config generator.
Is there anything extra I need to do?


On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:

> On 05/01/2015 09:31 AM, Josh Green wrote:
> > When generating the build directory, I should use:
> > /dev/build> cmake.exe ..\CMake -DBUILD_TESTING=ON
> >
> > then I should build CMake using visual studio.
>
> You shouldn't need to enable testing /dev/build since that would
> just run tests with the Visual Studio generator.  You can do
>
>  /dev/build-fastbuild> ..\build\bin\debug\Cmake.exe -G Fastbuild ..\CMake
> -DBUILD_TESTING=ON
>
> since that is a CMake built with your generator.  Then build
> that version before running ctest.
>
> > then I should do the following:
> > /dev/build-fastbuild> ctest
>
> You should use
>
>  ..\build\bin\debug\ctest
>
> since only that ctest knows about the Fastbuild generator.
>
> Is the Fastbuild generator a single or multi-config generator?
> In other words, does one select the build configuration with
> CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE when running CMake or later at build time?
>
> > So what kind of tests will this run?
>
> It will run the entire test suite that we normally run for
> nightly testing.
>
> > Is this documented anywhere?
>
> The CMake_TEST_EXTERNAL_CMAKE option is undocumented because
> it was created for use in configuring our nightly testing
> infrastructure.  I only suggested it in case you didn't have
> everything built, but now that I see your layout you shouldn't
> need it.
>
> -Brad
>
>
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