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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve managed to solve my own question. The trick is to use the $<CONFIGURATION> generator expression. Here is the correct line (this time with the add_test command included, which I had forgotten to copy-paste before, which no doubt confused everyone).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>add_test(NAME SIRF_TESTS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> COMMAND ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND} -C $<CONFIGURATION> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/SIRF-prefix/src/SIRF-build/)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kris <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><o:p> </o:p></a></p><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Kris Thielemans <br><b>Sent:</b> 23 December 2017 09:12<br><b>To:</b> 'CMake Mail List' <cmake@cmake.org><br><b>Subject:</b> how to add a test that calls ctest<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have a superbuild-type project <a href="https://github.com/CCPPETMR/SIRF-SuperBuild">https://github.com/CCPPETMR/SIRF-SuperBuild</a> where we want to add tests that call ctest for the dependent projects. We do this as<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> COMMAND ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND} WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/SIRF-prefix/src/SIRF-build/)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>which works fine when using Makefiles, but fails with Visual Studio as we don’t pass the “-C config” flag. So how do we put this in? I tried<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> COMMAND ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND} -C ${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR} -VV WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/SIRF-prefix/src/SIRF-build/)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But this gives me errors like<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1: 4: Test command: NOT_AVAILABLE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1: Test not available in configuration "$(Configuration)".<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Kris Thielemans<br>Reader in Medical Imaging Physics at University College London</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>