[vtk-developers] Check if VTK was built with testing

[David Cole]

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On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:35 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> Seems like:
>
>   if(vtkTestingCore_LOADED)
>
> should work. (Tested against a build tree of VTK, not sure if the same
> applies to an install tree...)
>
> Hopefully one of the modularization gurus chimes in to say if that's the
> canonical way we're expected to do that. There are other ways to tell, even
> though BUILD_TESTING itself is not available after a "find_package(VTK)"...
>
>
> I used the following CMake code to see what variables are available (and
> there are many, many, many) after a find_package(VTK):
>
> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
> project(VTK-cli1)
>
> function(echo_all_cmake_variables)
>   message(STATUS "")
>   get_cmake_property(vs VARIABLES)
>   foreach(v ${vs})
>     message(STATUS "${v}='${${v}}'")
>   endforeach(v)
>   message(STATUS "")
> endfunction()
>
> message(STATUS "")
> message(STATUS "before find_package(VTK)")
> echo_all_cmake_variables()
>
> find_package(VTK)
>
> message(STATUS "")
> message(STATUS "after find_package(VTK)")
> echo_all_cmake_variables()
>
>
> Then I ran CMake, pointing it to a build of VTK, and just searched the
> output for "Testing":
>
>   cmake -DVTK_DIR="/Users/.../VTK-build" .. > out.txt
>
>
> HTH,
> David C.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:50 AM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In the vtkwikiexamples repository, we get a compiler error:
>>
>> fatal error: vtkTesting.h: No such file or directory
>>
>> if VTK was not built with BUILD_TESTING=ON. Is there a way to check the
>> value of this variable in an external project?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>>
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