[CMake] Batch Files in CTest (instead executables)

[David Graf]

Hello Michael

I fixed it differently. I just two different scripts. One for ctest and one to execute executables from the command line directly.

David 

On Mar 31, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Michael Wild wrote:

> Why on earth is it so bad to have a trailing line with "--- YAY TEST PASSED ---" (or something like this) in the output of ctest -V?
> 
> On 31. Mar, 2010, at 15:04 , David Graf wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> But this is also not a solution for me. Our testdriver prints some debugging information that can be seen if ctest is executed with the -V option. Therefore, it is impossible to echo SUCCESS or FAILED.
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> On Mar 31, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Michael Wild wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 31. Mar, 2010, at 11:47 , David Graf wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello Michael
>>>> 
>>>>> Instead of checking the exit status, you could have CTest check the output for success or failure. Have a look at SET_TESTS_PROPERTIES.
>>>> 
>>>> Unfortunately, that doesn't work in our case. We are running a testdriver for the result checking. There reason is: Our tests produce xml and XML cannot be compared like a string. It must be translated into canonical form before it can be compared. We wrote this part in C++. Therefore, we cannot do the comparison in CMake.
>>>> 
>>>> David
>>> 
>>> What I meant is this to output a string from your batch script:
>>> 
>>> SETLOCAL
>>> SET PATH=...;%PATH%
>>> execute_something.exe
>>> IF %ERRORLEVEL% neq 0 ( 
>>> ECHO "FAILED"
>>> ) ELSE (
>>> ECHO "SUCCESS"
>>> )
>>> ENDLOCAL
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Michael
>> 
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