Re: [Boost-users] [boost] [Fit] upcoming formal review for Boost.Fit

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost] [Fit] upcoming formal review for Boost.Fit
From: Paul Fultz II (pfultz2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-02-29 18:49:12

On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 4:57:10 PM UTC-6, Vicente J. Botet Escriba 
wrote:
>
> Le 29/02/2016 19:12, Paul Fultz II a écrit :
> >
> >
> > On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 1:13:06 AM UTC-6, Vicente J. Botet 
> > Escriba wrote:
> >
> >     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
> >     <https://github.com/viboes/std-make>
> >
> >     I will try to help you this evening,
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the help, I got a working bjam there to build the tests. Of 
> > course,
> > the next thing to do is to add them to the CI. However, it seems that 
> > other
> > boost libraries only tests using cmake. I will look into that further.
> >
> You will have time to add it to the CI once the library is approved ;-)
> Or were you talking of your own CI?
>
> Do you have an example of a library using cmake and not jamfile?
>

I meant add it to travis and appveyor. Currently, libraries like Boost.Hana 
and
Boost.Compute only test with CMake with CI, though. 
 
Paul