Hi Kyle,
I looked at the example of Using ctest and cdash without cmake
(https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/community/wikis/doc/ctest/Using-CTEST-and-CDASH-without-CMAKE#steercmake)
and I think I will try to go in that direction.
Part of my confusion is that I inherited this from a former employee and
have been learning by doing/hacking.
Thanks for the reply.
On 1/2/2019 9:39 AM, Kyle Edwards wrote:
On Tue, 2019-01-01 at 16:55 -0500, Donald MacQueen [|] wrote:
No. CMakelists.txt does nothing but download the correct installer
(32 or 64 bit) from our server, set a bunch of variables, and then
run CTest. I invoke the InstallShield installer from a command line
in a CTest.
There is no project, no make, no compile, no build. Just set a bunch
of variables and run CTest.
I think from what Kyle said I need to migrate(?) this to a script
that can be called from CTest directly, e.g., ctest -D Experimental
-S cdash.txt.
Thanks for the reply.
If CMakeLists.txt is only downloading and running an installer, then
perhaps it would be best to move this step into your CTest dashboard
script as you suggested. Your CMakeLists.txt is generating the
CTestTestfile.cmake file for you, but you can also write this file
yourself with a series of add_test() calls, which would enable you to
completely get rid of CMakeLists.txt.
If you're not comfortable doing this, you can also just do project(foo
LANGUAGES NONE) in your CMakeLists.txt as has already been suggested.
FWIW, the usual convention for CMake scripts is for anything other than
CMakeLists.txt to have a .cmake extension (though this isn't enforced,
it's just a convention.) And the -D argument to CTest isn't necessary
when running a dashboard script. So your CTest invocation would look
like this:
ctest -S dashboard.cmake
You can also have this script run ctest_configure(), which will run
CMake for you (if you decide not to migrate from CMakeLists.txt) so you
don't have to do it in the batch file.
Good luck, and let us know if you have any more questions!
Kyle
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