hana/cmake/TestHeaders.cmake
Louis Dionne 126cdb8e0d [CMake] Make the header tests generate a single executable
The idea was given to me by Daniel Pfeifer (@purpleKarrot), who said it may
actually help find ODR issues better. In any case, this simplifies the script
and reduces the (otherwise overwhelming) number of targets.
2017-11-25 13:00:53 -08:00

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# 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 <the/public/header.hpp>
#
# 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(<target> [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
# ----------
# <target>:
# 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()