dependencies – Page 2

CMake & CTest : make test doesn’t build tests

January 2, 2023 by Tarik

It is arguably a bug in CMake (previously tracked here) that this doesn’t work out of the box. A workaround is to do the following: add_test(TestName ExeName) add_custom_target(check COMMAND ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND} DEPENDS ExeName) Then you can run make check and it will compile and run the test. If you have several tests, then you would have … Read more

Makefile, header dependencies

December 25, 2022 by Tarik

If you are using a GNU compiler, the compiler can assemble a list of dependencies for you. Makefile fragment: depend: .depend .depend: $(SRCS) rm -f “$@” $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MM $^ -MF “$@” include .depend or depend: .depend .depend: $(SRCS) rm -f “$@” $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MM $^ > “$@” include .depend where SRCS is a variable … Read more