Documentation/4.0/Developers/Tutorials/DashboardSetup

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Prerequisites

Use CMake version >= 2.8.5

Setup

Follow the following instructions to set up dashboard: (by JC, from [1])

$ cd ~
$ mkdir Dashboards
$ mkdir DashboardScripts
$ cd DashboardScripts
$ wget http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/trunk/CMake/SlicerDashboardScript.TEMPLATE.cmake
$ mv SlicerDashboardScript.TEMPLATE.cmake <MachineName>_opensuse-64bits_slicer_release_nightly.cmake

Edit the file <MachineName>_opensuse_slicer_release_nightly.cmake to match your machine settings. You should update the following variables:

set(MY_OPERATING_SYSTEM          "OpenSuSe") # Windows, Linux, Darwin...
set(MY_COMPILER          "g++4.4.3")
set(MY_QT_VERSION          "4.7")
set(QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE   "$ENV{HOME}/Projects/qtsdk-2010.05/qt/bin/qmake")
set(CTEST_SITE            "karakoram.kitware")
set(CTEST_DASHBOARD_ROOT  "$ENV{HOME}/Dashboards/")
set(CTEST_CMAKE_COMMAND   "/home/jchris/Projects/cmake-2.8.4/bin/cmake")
...
set(CTEST_BUILD_CONFIGURATION "Release")
...
set(SCRIPT_MODE "nightly")

If git and svn are not in the path, make sure to set the variables CTEST_SVN_COMMAND and CTEST_GIT_COMMAND.

So that your dashboard can automatically start at 11pm daily, you could add an entry similar to the following one in your crontab. (On ubuntu, I am running *crontab -e* to edit the current user cron list)

0 11 * * * /path/to/cmake-2.8.5/bin/ctest -S /Users/JOE/DashboardScripts/<MachineName>_opensuse-64bits_slicer_release_nightly.cmake -VV -O /Users/JOE/Dashboards/Logs/<MachineName>-64bits_slicer_release_nightly.log

You can use CTEST_BUILD_FLAGS to set the number of CPUs to be used by make (eg, -j4), and CTEST_PARALLEL_LEVEL to set the number of tests to run in parallel (see comments in the configuration script).

Setting up a continuous dashboard

Similarly if you want to setup a continuous dashboard,

$ cp <MachineName>_opensuse-64bits_slicer_release_nightly.cmake <MachineName>_opensuse-64bits_slicer_release_continuous.cmake

Edit <MachineName>_opensuse-64bits_slicer_release_continuous.cmake and set

set(SCRIPT_MODE "*continuous*")

Then add the corresponding entry in crontab so that it starts everyday at 6am:

0 6 * * * /path/to/cmake-2.8.5/bin/ctest -S /Users/JOE/DashboardScripts/<MachineName>_opensuse-64bits_slicer_release_continuous.cmake -VV -O /Users/JOE/Dashboards/Logs/<MachineName>_opensuse-64bits_slicer_release_nightly.log

The output of the build is contained in SlicerFunctionCTestPackage-make-package-output.txt" in your slicer build directory, you can check this file if something went wrong.