That was it, thanks Nils! For future reference, after adding the test like Nils suggested, calling "ctest" wouldn't work as it now needs your configuration:
ctest -C Debug On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 11:16 AM Nils Gladitz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05.01.2018 17:11, Saad Khattak wrote: > > Hi, > > Suppose I have something like this: > > add_executable(MyTest main.cpp) > set_target_properties(MyTest > PROPERTIES > DEBUG_POSTFIX _d > RELEASE_POSTFIX _r > ) > add_test(RunTests MyTest) # where MyTest is the <command> > > I expect CMake to recognize that "MyTest" has executables that are named > "MyTest_d" and "MyTest_r" and NOT MyTest. I expect this because in the > CMake documentation the <command> can be an executable target where CMake > then replaces it with the location of the executable. > > However, what I get is errors when running "ctest" where it complains that > it cannot find "MyTest" when it should really be searching for "MyTest_d" > and "MyTest_r". > > Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug in CMake? > > > You are using the old signature (without NAME|COMMAND) for which the > documentation states [1]: > "Unlike the above NAME signature no transformation is performed on > the command-line to support target names or generator expressions." > > Use the new signature instead e.g.: > add_test(NAME RunTests COMMAND MyTest) > > Nils > > [1] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/add_test.html >
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