[CMake] Install without building unittests

[Kyle Edwards]

You could build CMake with -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF. This will skip the unit
tests altogether.
Kyle
On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 02:24 +0000, Scott Bloom wrote:
> Note, Im running from inside visual studio…  I do realize for a
> makefile based system, I can run make install from inside the
> executable’s build directory
>  
> From: CMake <cmake-bounces at cmake.org> On Behalf Of Scott Bloom
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 7:23 PM
> To: cmake at cmake.org
> Subject: [CMake] Install without building unittests
>  
> I asked this a couple of years ago, and the answer was “no”…
> 
> If you run tests, it doesn’t automatically build tests…  So why does
> an install?
>  
> I would never release something into the wild with out running the
> tests…
>  
> But, for developer builds, were we need to install all the packages
> in order to run the applications, sometimes I just want to test the
> GUI which requires an install of the core application into the
> correct location, without building the 1500+ (yes 1500) unittests,
> which can take 15-20 minutes to build on their own…
>  
> Is there anyway to break the dependency??
> 
> Scott
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