Other CMake Tools
Explore key CMake tools beyond building, including CTest for standardized automated testing, CPack for generating cross-platform packages, and GUI interfaces like CMake GUI and CCMake. Understand how these tools integrate into the CMake workflow to help automate testing, packaging, and configuration for efficient C++ project development.
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CTest
Automated testing is very important in order to produce and maintain high-quality code. It is one of the available command-line tools, so let's briefly introduce it now.
CTest is about wrapping CMake in a higher layer of abstraction, where the building stage becomes just one of the stepping stones in the process of developing our software. Other tasks that CMake can do for us include:
Updating.
Running all kinds of tests.
Reporting the state of the project to the external dashboard.
Running scripts written in the CMake language.
More importantly, CTest standardizes running tests and reporting for solutions built with CMake. This means that as a user, we don't need to know which testing ...