[CMake] Tracing ctest crash on windows

[Stuermer, Michael SP/HZA-ZSEP]

Hallo Aaron,

if you’d like to have the full luxury of visual studio with test explorer and running/debugging tests directly as you can do it with other .NET based tests etc. you can try these extensions:


-          child process debugging power tools (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GreggMiskelly.MicrosoftChildProcessDebuggingPowerTool)

-          ctesttestadapter (https://github.com/micst/CTestTestAdapter/tree/master/dist)

For debugging tests you need both extensions: the first for hooking on the process that is launched by ctest.exe, the second for actual ctest integration in visual studio.

Compared to running your binary test-targets directly you will gain the advantage that you do not have to modify and debugging command line, you have all tests listed in a explorer windows with easy access and you get all verbose messages from ctest in the test explorer as well.

The VSIX extension is a fork from https://github.com/toeb/CTestTestAdapter with some changes and bugfixes. It's not tested very well but I use it every day and it works for me. Do not use the "ctesttestadapter" you can find directly in visual studio, it does not work with latest cmake.

CAUTION: If you use the cmaketools extension (http://cmaketools.codeplex.com) in Visual Studio, the link to the test location in the test explorer does not work (double clicking on a test will show some "could open file location" error). This does not break the test adapter, opening the CTestTestfile.cmake is just not possible from within Visual Studio.

Michael

From: CMake [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Boxer
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 9:17 PM
To: Bill Hoffman
Cc: cmake
Subject: Re: [CMake] Tracing ctest crash on windows

Thanks, Bill and Jakob.  I did what you suggested and found the problem
Aaron

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com<mailto:bill.hoffman at kitware.com>> wrote:
On 1/5/2017 9:32 AM, Jakob van Bethlehem wrote:

CTest is not some magical tool that internally runs your test or
something like that - instead CTest just fires up your test executable
and does clever things with the output. In the same way you can just set
your test project as startup-project, and debug it like any other
executable.

Sincerely,
Jakob

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Aaron Boxer <boxerab at gmail.com<mailto:boxerab at gmail.com>
<mailto:boxerab at gmail.com<mailto:boxerab at gmail.com>>> wrote:

    Hello,
    I am on windows, with visual studio 2015.
    Some of my ctest tests are crashing with exception.
    Is there a way of debugging these tests ?

    When I run in debug mode, I get an exception dialog,
    but can't drop into debugging environment.
If you run ctest -VV it will show the full command line.  Best way is to just run the same command in the debugger.

-Bill


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