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CMake Cookbook

You're reading from   CMake Cookbook Building, testing, and packaging modular software with modern CMake

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788470711
Length 606 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Radovan Bast Radovan Bast
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Roberto Di Remigio Roberto Di Remigio
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting up Your System 2. From a Simple Executable to Libraries FREE CHAPTER 3. Detecting the Environment 4. Detecting External Libraries and Programs 5. Creating and Running Tests 6. Configure-time and Build-time Operations 7. Generating Source Code 8. Structuring Projects 9. The Superbuild Pattern 10. Mixed-language Projects 11. Writing an Installer 12. Packaging Projects 13. Building Documentation 14. Alternative Generators and Cross-compilation 15. Testing Dashboards 16. Porting a Project to CMake 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Defining a unit test using the Catch2 library

The code for this recipe is available at https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook/tree/v1.0/chapter-04/recipe-02, and has a C++ example. The recipe is valid with CMake version 3.5 (and higher), and has been tested on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

In the previous recipe, we used an integer return code to signal success or failure in test.cpp. This is fine for simple tests, but typically, we would like to use a testing framework that offers an infrastructure to run more sophisticated tests with fixtures, comparisons with numerical tolerance, and better error reporting if a test fails. A modern and popular test library is Catch2 (https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2). One nice feature of this test framework is the fact that it can be included in your project as a single-header library, which makes compilation and updating the framework...

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