Re: Some bbv2 questions

From: Johan Nilsson (johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-20 05:35:54

"Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:cl5ckp$rpl$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
>
> Johan Nilsson wrote:
>

[snip]

>
> You can. Top level Jamfile could look like:
>
> project my_project ;
> alias cppunit : deps/libs//cppunit ;
>
> and you'll be able to use "my_project//cppunit" in Jamfiles.

I tried that but get the following error:

error: Unable to find file or target named
error: 'myproj_deps//cppunit'
error: referred from project at
error: '../../../libs/mylib/tests'

The top level jamfile looks like this (slightly instrumented):

----
project
: requirements
<threading>multi
<include>include
<link-runtime>shared
: default-build
release
: build-dir
build
;
use-project /mylib : libs/mylibs ;
project myproj_deps ;
alias cppunit : deps/libs//cppunit ;
build-project libs/mylib ;
build-project libs/mylib/tests ;
---
referred to in libs/mylib/tests/Jamfile as:
---
...
exe mylib_tests
: # sources
$(all_sources)
//mylib
myproj_deps//cppunit
...
---
>
>
> > While I'm at it, a few more related questions:
> >
> > - Is there a rule available to run the resulting mylib_tests.exe file
from
> > the above Jamfile?
>
> Yes:
>
http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2.advanced.builtins.targets.html#bbv2.builtins.testing
>
That require that I replace 'exe' with 'unit-test'; is there a way of doing
this in two separate steps, e.g.:
exe my_exe ;
run-unit-test my_exe ;
> > - Can I specify the output directory of the .exe (it depends on a couple
> > of .dlls located in the bin directory)?
>
> No, at least now. You can use the "stage" rule in the meantime.
That doesn't seem to play well with the unit-test rule referenced above (the
tests are run at the original location, complaining about missing DLLs).
// Johan