[CMake] CDash problems

[David Cole]

OK, I finally have a build of boost I can rely on which enables me to
try this out for you again.

Using the following source tree, I am able to get a successful build &
test of Safe Numerics, other than a couple of warnings, and it
actually submits to the CDash dashboard, no problem.


Source tree:

    davidcole at TRIVET /c/dev/repos/safe_numerics (master)
    $ git log -1
    commit 569dc083c96845f06c5bf7a9d9d6756fd45d43bd
    Author: Robert Ramey <ramey at rrsd.com>
    Date:   Sun Feb 1 21:14:12 2015 -0800

        updated html documentation


Script used to build and submit dashboard (w/ CMake 3.3.0, ninja, MS
compiler from Visual Studio 2013, and a boost install with "system"
layout):

    @rem Windows cmd script "build-SafeNumerics.cmd"
    setlocal

    set build_dir=%~n0
    rmdir /q /s "%build_dir%"
    mkdir "%build_dir%"

    pushd "%build_dir%"
    cmake ^
      -DBOOST_ROOT=C:\dev\NSB\x86\Release\boost ^
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
      -G Ninja C:\dev\repos\safe_numerics\CMake
    ninja Experimental
    popd

    endlocal


Results:

    http://my.cdash.org/buildSummary.php?buildid=803237


When I update to most recent master (source at commit 78111d12), it
still submits, but there are build errors in it:

    http://my.cdash.org/buildSummary.php?buildid=803238


The CMake/CDash stuff looks reasonable from my perspective. I haven't
dug into all the details or anything, but it basically works, provided
you have a boost install to point it to. I have no problems at all
submitting dashboards for this project. If you want, I actually have a
machine at work that is already submitting some open source dashboards
-- if you'd like, I can add a Nightly run for Safe Numerics in this
Windows/VS2013 environment since it is small and quick to run.


HTH,
David C.


On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:16 PM, David Cole <DLRdave at aol.com> wrote:
> I cloned your project [Safe
> Numerics](https://github.com/robertramey/safe_numerics) to try to help
> you out by attempting to reproduce this problem.
>
> I see the most recent activity is in the "policies" branch, but I
> don't see anything in the whole repo, in either 'master' or 'policies'
> branches that refer to how to build it via CMake, or how to attempt to
> submit a CDash build...
>
> I browsed through the html docs and did a 'git grep -i experimental'
> to no avail.
>
> Do you have build instructions? Should I just configure using the
> "CMake/CMakeLists.txt" file and then try to build the Experimental
> target? Will it build ok on Windows with VS 2013, or Ninja plus that
> compiler?
>
>
> Thx,
> David C.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Robert Ramey <ramey at rrsd.com> wrote:
>> I set up a project on the cdash.org website.
>>
>> When I invoke the "experimental" target it runs the tests and uploads the
>> results to cdash.org.  So far so good. In my github project and
>> documentation I've encouraged uses of this project to use CMake to build it
>> and test it and run the "experimental" target so that their test results
>> will also appear on the cdash dashboard.  But when someone other than myself
>> tries to do this, I get an emal from admin at cdhash.org which says:
>>
>> Object: Cannot create handler based on XML content
>> An XML submission from 42.156.137.83 to the project Safe Numerics cannot be
>> parsed. The content of the file is as follow:
>>
>> -CDash on my.cdash.org
>>
>> What do I have to do to find out the problem and fix this?
>>
>> The project is "Safe Numerics"
>>
>> http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=Safe+Numerics
>>
>>
>> Robert Ramey
>>
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