[CMake] Target to build only unit tests?

[David Cole]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:52 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a target generated by CMake to build ONLY unit tests? I'm using
>> Visual Studio 2008.
>>
>
> No, there is not.
>
>
>> If not, is there a way I can make one?
>
> Yes, of course. You can do anything you want with a combination of
> add_custom_command and add_custom_target.
>

The easiest thing is simply:

  add_custom_target(unit_tests
    DEPENDS unit_test_target_1 unit_test_target_2)

Then when you build the do-nothing "unit_tests" target, all of its
DEPENDS targets will be built first.


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> David
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