Tests: On Windows place test exes in bin #18677
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To ensure that the test executables can find the FreeCAD DLL files, all exe files must be in the same directory as those DLLs.
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This puts the files into the sub-directory Debug or Release (at least here) inside the bin directory. So, it still won't find the needed DLLs. Btw, how is it supposed to be working with VS to run the tests? I never got it working there. |
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I'll give it a test with Visual Studio (I use cLion normally, which inverts the folder structure from what you describe, using a completely separate build directory for each build type, and putting the I am not sure how VS wants you to run the tests: in cLion each test and test suite has a "play" button next to it in the editor, plus there's a "run all tests" option. Maybe VS has something similar, I'll poke around at it after the holidays. |
There are the properties RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_RELEASE, RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_DEBUG, LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_RELEASE and LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_DEBUG. See here: FreeCAD/cMake/FreeCadMacros.cmake Line 223 in 7fb8044
It has a menu called Test with some play buttons. When pressing them it does something but then stops without giving any feedback. Anyway, it's not so important because my main platform is Linux. |
To ensure that the test executables can find the FreeCAD DLL files, all exe files must be in the same directory as those DLLs. I was doing this by hand before, but I believe this is the normal way to make cmake do it automatically. @wwmayer can you verify that this is correct, or let me know a better way? This works on my system, at any rate.