ctest does not find valgrind

Question

Calling

ctest -j4 -DCTEST_MEMORYCHECK_COMMAND="/usr/bin/valgrind" -DMemoryCheckCommand="/usr/bin/valgrind" --output-on-failure -T MemCheck 

says

Memory checker (MemoryCheckCommand) not set, or cannot find the specified program.

Why doesn't it find valgrind automatically nor when specified manually?

Answer 1

As described on the CTest Wiki page, CTest reads the location of the memory check command (among other settings) from a file DartConfiguration.tcl in the build directory. One way to create the dart configuration file is to simply include the CTest CMake module in your CMakeLists.txt:

include (CTest)

The CTest module will find your valgrind installation in /usr/bin and put a variable MemoryCheckCommand pointing to it in the DartConfiguration.tcl file.