Actuall, I haven't tried this using ctest directly, just via make test (or its Visual Studio equivalent). I believe that to make it work as one test, you'd have to provide a trivial launcher which does the two build - run steps in sequence.
Petr On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Leif Walsh <leif.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > So you run 'ctest -R testTarget' and it picks up the build test too? > Hmm. Thanks. > > On Wed, 9 May 2012, Petr Kmoch wrote: > >> The closest I've come to solving this problem is that for each test >> ${testTarget}, I add two cmake tests: >> >> add_test(NAME build_${testTarget} COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build >> "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}" --target ${testTarget} --config >> $<CONFIGURATION>) >> >> add_test(NAME someName COMMAND ${testTarget} ...) >> >> It might even be possible to combine them into one command, perhaps >> with a custom test driver. >> >> Petr >> >> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Leif Walsh <leif.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Is there a make, cmake, or ctest way to rebuild the dependencies of a >> > test if needed, and then run the test? >> > >> > Suppose I have a bulit directory and I'm developing. I want to make >> > edits, then run a command specifying one test to check, so that >> > anything needed by that test gets rebuilt (if my changes require it), >> > and then run. >> > >> > In make, I would do this by having one rule like >> > >> > run_%: % >> > ./$< >> > >> > so that if I want to edit some library's source file and then run >> > test_foobar, I would just run `make run_test_foobar`, and the source I >> > changed would get recompiled, the library would get relinked, >> > test_foobar would get relinked if it's static, and then test_foobar >> > would be run. >> > >> > I hoped ctest --bulid-and-test would help, but it seems it doesn't. I >> > tried --build-target test_foobar (I have add_test(test_foobar ...) in >> > my configuration), and it only built test_foobar, it didn't seem to >> > run it. >> > >> > -- >> > Cheers, >> > Leif >> > -- >> > >> > Powered by www.kitware.com >> > >> > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> > >> > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: >> > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ >> > >> > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake >> > > -- > Cheers, > Leif -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake