# Copyright Louis Dionne 2013-2017 # Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. # (See accompanying file LICENSE.md or copy at http://boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) # # # This CMake module provides a function generating a unit test to make sure # that every public header can be included on its own. # # When a C++ library or application has many header files, it can happen that # a header does not include all the other headers it depends on. When this is # the case, it can happen that including that header file on its own will # break the compilation. This CMake module generates a dummy executable # comprised of many .cpp files, each of which includes a header file that # is part of the public API. In other words, the executable is comprised # of .cpp files of the form: # # #include # # and then exactly one `main` function. If this succeeds to compile, it means # that the header can be included on its own, which is what clients expect. # Otherwise, you have a problem. Since writing these dumb unit tests by hand # is tedious and repetitive, you can use this CMake module to automate this # task. # add_header_test( [EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL] [EXCLUDE excludes...] HEADERS headers...) # # Generates header-inclusion unit tests for all the specified headers. # # This function creates a target which builds a dummy executable including # each specified header file individually. If this target builds successfully, # it means that all the specified header files can be included individually. # # Parameters # ---------- # : # The name of the target to generate. # # HEADERS headers: # A list of header files to generate the inclusion tests for. All headers # in this list must be represented as relative paths from the root of the # include directory added to the compiler's header search path. In other # words, it should be possible to include all headers in this list as # # #include <${header}> # # For example, for a library with the following structure: # # project/ # doc/ # test/ # ... # include/ # boost/ # hana.hpp # hana/ # transform.hpp # tuple.hpp # pair.hpp # ... # # When building the unit tests for that library, we'll add `-I project/include' # to the compiler's arguments. The list of public headers should therefore contain # # boost/hana.hpp # boost/hana/transform.hpp # boost/hana/tuple.hpp # boost/hana/pair.hpp # ... # # Usually, all the 'public' header files of a library should be tested for # standalone inclusion. A header is considered 'public' if a client should # be able to include that header on its own. # # [EXCLUDE excludes]: # An optional list of headers or regexes for which no unit test should be # generated. Basically, any header in the list specified by the `HEADERS` # argument that matches anything in `EXCLUDE` will be skipped. # # [EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL]: # If provided, the generated target is excluded from the 'all' target. # function(add_header_test target) cmake_parse_arguments(ARGS "EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL" # options "" # 1 value args "HEADERS;EXCLUDE" # multivalued args ${ARGN}) if (NOT ARGS_HEADERS) message(FATAL_ERROR "The `HEADERS` argument must be provided.") endif() if (ARGS_EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL) set(ARGS_EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL "EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL") else() set(ARGS_EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL "") endif() foreach(header ${ARGS_HEADERS}) set(skip FALSE) foreach(exclude ${ARGS_EXCLUDE}) if (${header} MATCHES ${exclude}) set(skip TRUE) break() endif() endforeach() if (skip) continue() endif() get_filename_component(filename "${header}" NAME_WE) get_filename_component(directory "${header}" DIRECTORY) set(source "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/headers/${directory}/${filename}.cpp") if (NOT EXISTS "${source}") file(WRITE "${source}" "#include <${header}>") endif() list(APPEND sources "${source}") endforeach() set(standalone_main "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/headers/_standalone_main.cpp") if (NOT EXISTS "${standalone_main}") file(WRITE "${standalone_main}" "int main() { }") endif() add_executable(${target} ${ARGS_EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL} ${sources} "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/headers/_standalone_main.cpp" ) endfunction()