[CMake] add_test and $(Configuration) with Visual Studio Generator

[Michael Wild]

On 20. Jul, 2010, at 21:39 , Kelly Thompson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I am having trouble with add_test and the MSVC macro $(Configuration) when I
> generate project files for Visual Studio.  I am hoping someone on this list
> can provide a solution.
> 
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> 
> Scenario:  (This is an outline of what I want to do.)
> 
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> 1.     Ceating a unit test via 'add_executable(unittest unittest.cc)'.
> 
> 2.     Add a the test so that it runs under a script that takes the unit
> test's fully qualified path as an argument.  That is, I use 'add_test(
> myunittest c:\bin\mytestscript ${path_to_unittest}/unittest.exe )'
> 
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> 
> So the question is: how do I define ${path_to_unittest}.  I was trying to
> use 'get_target_property( unittest_loc unitttest LOCATION ),' but this
> provides a path that contains the Visual Studio Macro $(Configuration) which
> is not converted into 'Debug/Release/.' when I run the unit tests inside of
> visual studio.  Instead I get an error about the path not being found (i.e:
> 'c:\myproj\test\$(Configuration)\unittest.exe not found').
> 


See http://cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#command:add_test.

add_test(NAME myunittest COMMAND c:/bin/mytestscript $<TARGET_FILE:unittest>)

should hopefully do what you need.


> 
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> Does anyone have an example of how to use add_test in the way that I am
> trying to use it?  I suppose I could create a custom command that runs a
> build time and does a find_file(.) but I think there must be a better way.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> 
> 
> -kt

Michael