Thanks Mike! That work like a charm. I'm not sure why I overlooked that portion of the user manual. Thanks for being patient.
-kt > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Wild [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 2:00 PM > To: Kelly Thompson > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CMake] add_test and $(Configuration) with Visual Studio > Generator > > On 20. Jul, 2010, at 21:39 , Kelly Thompson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I am having trouble with add_test and the MSVC macro $(Configuration) when > I > > generate project files for Visual Studio. I am hoping someone on this > list > > can provide a solution. > > > > > > > > Scenario: (This is an outline of what I want to do.) > > > > > > > > 1. Ceating a unit test via 'add_executable(unittest unittest.cc)'. > > > > 2. Add a the test so that it runs under a script that takes the unit > > test's fully qualified path as an argument. That is, I use 'add_test( > > myunittest c:\bin\mytestscript ${path_to_unittest}/unittest.exe )' > > > > > > > > So the question is: how do I define ${path_to_unittest}. I was trying to > > use 'get_target_property( unittest_loc unitttest LOCATION ),' but this > > provides a path that contains the Visual Studio Macro $(Configuration) > which > > is not converted into 'Debug/Release/.' when I run the unit tests inside > of > > visual studio. Instead I get an error about the path not being found > (i.e: > > 'c:\myproj\test\$(Configuration)\unittest.exe not found'). > > > > > See http://cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#command:add_test. > > add_test(NAME myunittest COMMAND c:/bin/mytestscript > $<TARGET_FILE:unittest>) > > should hopefully do what you need. > > > > > > > > Does anyone have an example of how to use add_test in the way that I am > > trying to use it? I suppose I could create a custom command that runs a > > build time and does a find_file(.) but I think there must be a better way. > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > > > -kt > > Michael _______________________________________________ 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
