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Generating and using a virtualenv from CMake
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cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.6) | |
project(CmakeVirtualenv) | |
enable_testing() | |
# Find Python and Virtualenv. We don't actually use the output of the | |
# find_package, but it'll give nicer errors. | |
find_package(PythonInterp 2.7 REQUIRED) | |
find_program(VIRTUALENV virtualenv) | |
if(NOT VIRTUALENV) | |
message(FATAL_ERROR "Could not find `virtualenv` in PATH") | |
endif() | |
set(VIRTUALENV ${VIRTUALENV} -p python2.7) | |
# Generate the virtualenv and ensure it's up to date. | |
add_custom_command( | |
OUTPUT venv | |
COMMAND ${VIRTUALENV} venv | |
) | |
add_custom_command( | |
OUTPUT venv.stamp | |
DEPENDS venv requirements.txt | |
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/requirements.txt requirements.txt | |
COMMAND ./venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade | |
) | |
# Build command line to run py.test. | |
set(PYTEST | |
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/venv/bin/python2 | |
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/venv/bin/py.test | |
) | |
add_custom_target(Tests ALL | |
DEPENDS venv.stamp | |
SOURCES requirements.txt | |
) | |
add_test(NAME run_tests | |
COMMAND ${PYTEST} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/test_sample.py | |
) |
The following approach works fine with python 3:
https://discourse.cmake.org/t/possible-to-create-a-python-virtual-env-from-cmake-and-then-find-it-with-findpython3/1132
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Tried doing this with python3 venv and wasn't able to get it to work sadly. Running commands like this
./venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade
were trying to install globally.