[CMake] Is it possible to run ctest outside build tree?

[David Cole]

This code:

https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/Source/ctest.cxx#L139-L157

shows ctest will look for a CTestTestfile.cmake or DartTestfile.txt
file in the current working directory as soon as it starts. Except in
the case of processing a "--launch" directive, in which case, it
dispatches that in the code just above there.

So. I think you have not much choice other than to propose adding a
new command line argument for such purpose, or wrapping existing ctest
with your own script or program of some sort.


HTH,
David C.




On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is possible to run ctest outside the builld tree and how?
> typical use is when I have an out of source build I may be in the source
> tree
> and want to run tests without manually going to build tree.
>
> i.e. I currently do:
>
> ninja -C /my/build/tree
>
> is there a similar way to do that with ctest (other than creating my own
> script, shell alias etc...)?
>
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