[CMake] Executing a CMake Custom Target from CTest

[Bill Hoffman]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 November 2009, Bill Hoffman wrote:
>> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>>   I'd like to know if this is possible to execute a cmake custom
>>> target from my nightly ctest script.
>>> Eg. In cmake
>>>
>>> ...
>>>   ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
>>>     OUTPUT bla.txt
>>>     COMMAND echo "bla" > bla.txt
>>>     VERBATIM
>>>     )
>>>   ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(BLA DEPENDS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/bla.txt)
>>> ...
>>>
>>>   For now I am copy/pasting this as an execute_process:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> CTEST_START(Nightly)
>>> CTEST_UPDATE(SOURCE "${CTEST_SOURCE_DIRECTORY}" RETURN_VALUE res)
>>> CTEST_CONFIGURE(BUILD "${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY}" RETURN_VALUE res)
>>> # duplicated code:
>>> EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND echo "bla" > bla.txt
>>>   OUTPUT_FILE bla.txt
>>>   RESULT_VARIABLE RES)
>>> CTEST_SUBMIT(RETURN_VALUE res)
>>> ...
>> This should do what you want:
>>      SET( CTEST_BUILD_TARGET BLA)
>>      CTEST_BUILD (
>>          BUILD "${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY}"
>>          APPEND
>>          )
> 
> It would be nice if there were TARGET, FLAGS and maybe CONFIGURATION and 
> PROJECT_NAME keywords for CTEST_BUILD(), setting the variables 
> CTEST_BUILD_TARGET, CTEST_BUILD_FLAGS, CTEST_BUILD_CONFIGURATION and 
> CTEST_BUILD_PROJECT_NAME feels a bit old-style ;-)
> 
Yup, should be/will be...  But if you need it today this is how to do 
it.  :)

-Bill