[CMake] Testing and DLLs

[Michael Jackson]

Are you talking about the actual library/DLL that you are creating or some 3rd party library that your built library depends on? If you do this:

# ---------- Setup output Directories -------------------------
SET (CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
  ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/Bin
  CACHE PATH
  "Single Directory for all Libraries"
  )

# --------- Setup the Executable output Directory -------------
SET (CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
  ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/Bin
  CACHE PATH
  "Single Directory for all Executables."
  )

# --------- Setup the Executable output Directory -------------
SET (CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
  ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/Bin
  CACHE PATH
  "Single Directory for all static libraries."
  )

All the libraries and executables should be built into the same location? 
___________________________________________________________
Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net 
BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio

On May 4, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Hauke Heibel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am curious whether there is a common way of dealing with unit tests
> when the actual project to be tested is a DLL? The issue I am facing
> is a common Windows issue where the required DLL is not found in the
> path.
> 
> I tried to put all binaries in the same directory by modifying
> CMAKE_*_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY but that did not affect my tests (added via
> add_test).
> 
> Another solution I can think of is running "make INSTALL" before
> running the tests but that feels like a strange approach since I
> typically want to test before installing.
> 
> Its also not really possible to adapt the PATH environment variable -
> how could I possible guess where somebody is going to build my code!?
> 
> So again, I am really curious if there is a well working solution.
> 
> Regards,
> Hauke
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