Passing arguments in xmake test

[Mick235711]

Currently, xmake test can only run the test programs without any command-line arguments. The only way to add arguments is by using set_runargs in xmake.lua. However, this requires setting up a new group/target, which is impractical to do for all the different kinds of possible command-line arguments.

One possible use case is to run Catch2 test cases. These programs can accept command-line arguments like [!benchmark] to run all test cases in the benchmark group.

My envisioned implementation for this is to pass command-like arguments through --args, e.g.:

$ xmake test -g X --args a --args b
# Run all test programs in group X with args "a b"
$ xmake test -g default --args '[!benchmark]'

In addition, these kinds of multi-arg options are also beneficial for other existing arguments. For example, -g for xmake run/test/install/uninstall currently can only run one group of programs. Even though it have glob support, adding multi-arg support enables use cases like xmake run -g 'a*' -g 'b*' to run all programs in groups starting with either a or b, which may be useful.

If the maintainers are interested in adding this feature, I can prepare an implementation.

[waruqi]

不考虑，目前原本每个 tests 都可以单独设置 args ，又不是依赖 set_runargs 和 group

xmake/tests/actions/test/xmake.lua

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add_tests("args", {runargs = {"foo", "bar"}})

想要命令行控制，只需要自定义几个 options，然后设置进去就行了

[Mick235711]

Sure. The original motivation is that enumerating every single combination of arguments are tedious, but I guess it's still doable anyways.