Testing launcher for toolset
Edward Diener via Boost-build <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:09:50 -0400
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Given some compiler toolset 'ttt' of release 'nnn', as in: using ttt : nnn : etc. ; is it possible to designate a single testing.launcher command for all 'run' tests ? If it is not currently possible, given that it is possible to specify a compile/link command for all compile and link tests using ttt-nnn via: using ttt : nnn: compile-link-command : etc. ; would it not be worthwhile to have the same functionality for all run tests ? My real world need for this is: clang-win toolset defaults to whatever algorithm clang-cl uses ( probably just the latest version it finds on the system ) to choose a version of Visual Studio/VC++ to use as its backend. But this does not allow the end-user to control the Visual Studio/VC++ backend for a particular version of clang unless he can execute a particular version of VC++'s vcvarsall.bat ( or equivalent ) for initiating the VC++ environment before invoking clang-cl. This can be done for compiling/linking by using the compile-link command, via a script, as above for a particular clang-win-nnn toolset. But there is no equivalent for doing this prior to a 'run' test so that the correct DLLs used when compiling/linking are found. One wants to specify a particular version of Visual Studio/VC++ for earlier versions of clang in which clang-cl may not work with the latest installed version of VC++. My kludgy workaround for this problem is to simply execute a particular version of VC++'s vcvarsall.bat ( or equivalent ) prior to invoking 'b2 toolset=clang-win-nnn etc.' in whatever command window I am running b2. This works, because the environment is passed down to all sub-processes, but I hate this kludge. If there were a means to specify a testing.launcher command for the 'run' test in the clang-win toolset definition just as there is a means for specifying a compile-link command in the toolsets ( and every compiler toolsets ) definition I would not need this kludge. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: https://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-build