Compiling and running the tests

reflect-cpp uses vcpkg for dependency management, including gtest, which is required for the tests.

# bootstrap vcpkg if you haven't done so already
git submodule update --init
./vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.sh # Linux, macOS
./vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.bat # Windows
# You may be prompted to install additional dependencies.

JSON only

To compile the tests, do the following:

cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=20 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DREFLECTCPP_BUILD_TESTS=ON
cmake --build build -j 4 # gcc, clang
cmake --build build --config Release -j 4 # MSVC

To run the tests, do the following:

./build/tests/json/reflect-cpp-json-tests

All serialization formats

To compile the tests with serialization formats other than JSON, do the following:

cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=20 -DREFLECTCPP_BUILD_TESTS=ON -DREFLECTCPP_AVRO=ON -DREFLECTCPP_BSON=ON -DREFLECTCPP_CAPNPROTO=ON -DREFLECTCPP_CBOR=ON -DREFLECTCPP_FLEXBUFFERS=ON -DREFLECTCPP_MSGPACK=ON -DREFLECTCPP_XML=ON -DREFLECTCPP_TOML=ON -DREFLECTCPP_UBJSON=ON -DREFLECTCPP_YAML=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build -j 4 # gcc, clang
cmake --build build --config Release -j 4 # MSVC

You can run all of the tests via ctest, as in:

ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure

Or you can run tests individually, as in:

./build/tests/avro/reflect-cpp-avro-tests
./build/tests/bson/reflect-cpp-bson-tests
./build/tests/capnproto/reflect-cpp-capnproto-tests
./build/tests/cbor/reflect-cpp-cbor-tests
./build/tests/flexbuffers/reflect-cpp-flexbuffers-tests
./build/tests/msgpack/reflect-cpp-msgpack-tests
./build/tests/json/reflect-cpp-json-tests
./build/tests/toml/reflect-cpp-toml-tests
./build/tests/ubjson/reflect-cpp-ubjson-tests
./build/tests/xml/reflect-cpp-xml-tests
./build/tests/yaml/reflect-cpp-yaml-tests