[CMake] Running Python unit tests importing modules built in CMake

[Lori A. Pritchett-Sheats]

The ENVIRONMENT property worked for me. Thank you!

And I will look at the python virtual environment.


On 05/03/12 07:12, Bradley Lowekamp wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For testing python another alternative is to create a python virtual 
> environment and install you python package into that. Here is an 
> example of how I have done that:
>
> https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK/blob/master/Wrapping/CMakeLists.txt#L97
>
> Brad
>
> On May 2, 2012, at 9:26 PM, David Cole wrote:
>
>> Are you using "add_test" to add the tests in the CMakeLists file?
>>
>> If so, you can set the test ENVIRONMENT property to set PYTHONPATH
>> when ctest executes the test. See property doc here:
>>
>> http://cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.8/cmake.html#prop_test:ENVIRONMENT
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Lori A. Pritchett-Sheats
>> <lpritch at lanl.gov <mailto:lpritch at lanl.gov>> wrote:
>>> I'm building Python modules using SWIG and CMake, and have run into a
>>> problem running Python unit tests for these built modules. I can not 
>>> find a
>>> slick way to set the Python module search path when running the 
>>> test. The
>>> usual trick of setting sys.path in the scripts will not work here 
>>> because I
>>> don't know the location of the build directory. I've tried updating
>>> PYTHONPATH in my CMakeList.txt file but that change isn't picked up 
>>> when the
>>> test is executed. I could create the unit test modules at build time 
>>> using
>>> CONFIGURE_FILE replacing @CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR@ in a sys.path 
>>> line, but
>>> that seems heavy-handed. Has anyone else run into this problem and found
>>> better a solution?
>>>
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> Bradley Lowekamp
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>
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>
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>
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Lori A. Pritchett-Sheats, PhD.
CCS-2, Computational Physics and Methods
Office: 505-665-6675
Fax: 505-665-4972

Los Alamos National Laboratory
P.O. Box 1663
MS D413
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