[CMake] How to emulate autotools "make check"?

[Mike Jackson]

What is it that you are trying to do _exactly_? Are you trying to
check for a symbol or function or something like that? Are you trying
to run a unit test that tests your code? Or are you trying to do
something else?

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Mike Jackson                                                 www.bluequartz.net

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Marcel Loose <loose at astron.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been searching for a way to implement "make check" the GNU
> Autotools way. That is: tests are not compiled and linked as part of the
> "all" target, but as part of the "check" target.
>
> I followed section 10.5 "Using CTest to Drive Complex Tests" of the book
> "Mastering CMake" and I looked at the Tests directory of the CMake
> distribution. From that I created my little toy project "Hello".
>
> Now the problem is: it doesn't work. For details, see below.
>
> It appears that ctest is running cmake (again), but it doesn't read the
> CMakeLists.txt files (should it?). Hence, I get all kind of warnings,
> like "No cmake_minimum_required command is present." And then, ctest
> fails, because it cannot find the executable "t_hello", which should
> have been built by ctest. At least, it is my understanding that it
> should have been built, since that was the purpose of using this complex
> add_test() statement.
>
> Could someone explain what I'm doing wrong?
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> Marcel Loose.
>