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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost] [Fit] upcoming formal review for Boost.Fit
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-02-29 02:12:13


Le 29/02/2016 05:37, Paul Fultz II a écrit :
>
>
> On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 5:28:39 PM UTC-6, Edward Diener wrote:
>
> On 2/28/2016 4:23 PM, paul Fultz wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, February 28, 2016 12:23 PM, Edward Diener
> <eldi..._at_[hidden] <javascript:>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2/27/2016 11:16 AM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
> >>> Dear Boost community,
> >>>
> >>> The formal review of Paul Fultz II's Fit library starts on
> Wednesday, 2nd March and ends on 13th March.
> >>
> >> How do I generate the docs or run the tests for my local copy
> of Fit ?
> >
> >>
> >
> > You can build and run the tests by building the check target.
> For those
> > unfamiliar with cmake, first configure the build directory with
> cmake:
> >
> > mkdir build
> > cd build
> > cmake ..
> > cd ..
> >
> > Next build the check target using the native build system(such
> as make or
> > msbuild). CMake can call the native build system to build the
> target 'check',
> > like so:
> >
> > cmake --build build --config Release --target check
> >
> > Also, the library can be installed by invoking the 'install'
> target.
>
> Why is the CMakeLists.txt not in the 'test' subdirectory, since it
> appears from your explanation that the file is used for the tests ?
>
>
> Its used to install the library as well.
>
>
> >
> > The documentation needs to be built using mkdocs. You can
> install mkdocs and
> > the boost theme with pip like this:
> >
> > pip install mkdocs mkdocs-boost
> >
> > Then to build the documentation, first `setup.py` must be run to
> extract the
> > documentation and examples from the source code, then `mkdocs`
> can be invoked,
> > like this:
> >
> > python setup.py
> > mkdocs build -t boost
> >
> > And the documentation will be in the 'doc/html' directory.
>
> Please add these explanations to Fit as you are not using Boost
> build to
> build the doc or run the tests.
>
>
> I will add them.
>
> Also, I tried to add an initial Jamfile to build and run the tests as
> well. I
> just modified the Jamfile from other boost libraries. However, I haven't
> figured out how to run the tests yet using bjam to test my Jamfile. I get
> "error: Did not find Jamfile.jam or Jamroot.jam in any parent
> directory". I am
> not sure how I am supposed to run the tests.
You can try to copy the ones in https://github.com/viboes/std-make

I will try to help you this evening,
Vicente



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