[CMake] Help with non-standard use of CMake

[Donald MacQueen [|]]

Hi Kyle,

I looked at the example of Using ctest and cdash without cmake 
(https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/community/wikis/doc/ctest/Using-CTEST-and-CDASH-without-CMAKE#steercmake) 
and I think I will try to go in that direction.

Part of my confusion is that I inherited this from a former employee and 
have been learning by doing/hacking.

Thanks for the reply.

On 1/2/2019 9:39 AM, Kyle Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-01-01 at 16:55 -0500, Donald MacQueen [|] wrote:
>> No. CMakelists.txt does nothing but download the correct installer
>> (32 or 64 bit) from our server, set a bunch of variables, and then
>> run CTest.  I invoke the InstallShield installer from a command line
>> in a CTest.
>> There is no project, no make, no compile, no build. Just set a bunch
>> of variables and run CTest.
>> I think from what Kyle said I need to migrate(?) this to a script
>> that can be called from CTest directly, e.g., ctest -D Experimental
>> -S cdash.txt.
>> Thanks for the reply.
> If CMakeLists.txt is only downloading and running an installer, then
> perhaps it would be best to move this step into your CTest dashboard
> script as you suggested. Your CMakeLists.txt is generating the
> CTestTestfile.cmake file for you, but you can also write this file
> yourself with a series of add_test() calls, which would enable you to
> completely get rid of CMakeLists.txt.
>
> If you're not comfortable doing this, you can also just do project(foo
> LANGUAGES NONE) in your CMakeLists.txt as has already been suggested.
>
> FWIW, the usual convention for CMake scripts is for anything other than
> CMakeLists.txt to have a .cmake extension (though this isn't enforced,
> it's just a convention.) And the -D argument to CTest isn't necessary
> when running a dashboard script. So your CTest invocation would look
> like this:
>
> ctest -S dashboard.cmake
>
> You can also have this script run ctest_configure(), which will run
> CMake for you (if you decide not to migrate from CMakeLists.txt) so you
> don't have to do it in the batch file.
>
> Good luck, and let us know if you have any more questions!
>
> Kyle

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