[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015782]: "--build" a generated test driver for Visual Studio 2015 fail because tests are not linked

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15782 
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Reported By:                Dario Oliveri
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15782
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   block
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2015-10-11 20:30 EDT
Last Modified:              2015-10-11 20:30 EDT
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Summary:                    "--build" a generated test driver for Visual Studio
2015 fail because tests are not linked
Description: 
After some trial and error I believe the issue is a bug in Cmake where
generating a test driver results in a project file (tests.vcxproj) that cannot
be built directly with cmake (basically it don't links the tests object files to
the generated test driver, so I believe the bug is in the solution/project
generator).

The current workaround is using some other frameworks and manually adding test
files instead of generating a test driver from a GLOB.




Steps to Reproduce: 
the script I run from project folder are:

- mkdir build
- cd build
- cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015" ..

Building a regular target WORKS:

- cmake --build . --target libInfectorpp2 --config Release

Building ALL or test targets DO NOT WORK:
- cmake --build . --target ALL_BUILD --config Release


This is the "CONSOLE LOG" of the above scripts:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Darelbi/infectorpp2/build/1.0.38

this is the github project (where CMakeLists.txt is located):
https://github.com/Darelbi/Infectorpp2

No need to download the project, the console log already shows the log.

Additional Information: 
I need to get "TESTS.EXE" executable build from console using Cmake and the
"--build" build command because I'm using a Continuos Integration server and
hence I need to build the library and the tests executable at each commit, and I
also need to run tests  at each commit.

Actually there's no valid target for building the tests executable.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2015-10-11 20:30 Dario Oliveri  New Issue                                    
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