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