[cmake-developers] cmake-file-api and CTest

[Nagy-Egri Máté Ferenc]

Hi Kyle,

I’ve never contributed to CMake before. I once wanted to enchance the makefile generators with batch-mode support and built CMake myself and walked through the code in debug mode to see what it does. I identified the entry point where I should’ve placed my code, but essential it would’ve require a major rewrite of the makefile generators to enable deferred makefile generation. Daunted by the amount of work, I figured it was not worth the effort. (It was primarily motivated by NMake.)

I’ll try giving the file API a spin and see if I understand the code enough to be able to add new queries and extract tests from the internal representation. I was hoping to not have to touch CMake itself for this summer project, but it seems that’s the first step.

Cheers,
Máté

Feladó: Kyle Edwards
Elküldve: 2019. július 8., hétfő 15:56
Címzett: Nagy-Egri Máté Ferenc; CMake fejlesztők
Tárgy: Re: [cmake-developers] cmake-file-api and CTest

On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 09:04 +0000, Nagy-Egri Máté Ferenc via cmake-
developers wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am trying to cook a CTest back-end to the Test Explorer UI
> extension for VS Code as a summer project and I thought of using the
> new cmake-file-api for it. The docs however are understandably scarce
> and I could not muster how to obtain tests and not targets. Is it
> possible with this initial API design? If not, is my best bet to
> invoke CTest and parse the console output?

FileAPI does not currently list CTest tests, though I agree that this
would be a good thing to have, perhaps for 3.16. Is this something
you'd be willing to help with?

Kyle

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