You need a recent cmake to have the CTest tests work properly, if you're on an older distro you need to update your cmake. Luckily Kitware provide a repo for common distros. These instructions work for bionic and xenial.
First remove the old distro cmake and install the pieces needed to get the new repo keys
# apt purge --auto-remove cmake # apt install gnupg wget apt-transport-https ca-certificates # wget -O - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc 2>/dev/null | sudo apt-key add - # apt edit-sources
Add the line deb https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ bionic main at the end replacing bionic with xenial as needed, and save (:wq). Then
# apt update # apt install cmake
The rules for tests are described in ctest / cmake language inside the minimal examples and api tests that are enabled by current build options, so you need to build with -DLWS_WITH_MINIMAL_EXAMPLES=1 to build the examples along with the library.
The tests are typically running the examples or api tests and regarding the process exiting with exit code 0 as success, anything else as failure.
The main tests just need -DLWS_WITH_MINIMAL_EXAMPLES=1. You can optionally set -DLWS_CTEST_INTERNET_AVAILABLE=0 to indicate you can't run the tests that need internet connectivity.
The tests have to be able to run without root and without disturbing any other install of lws in the build machine.
For that reason you have to do an unprivileged side-install into ../destdir, using make install DESTDIR=../destdir from the build directory and perform the tests on the pieces in there.
We must take care to run the pieces (.so etc) we just built, without having root access, and not any of the same pieces from some other lws version that may have been installed on the build machine. That includes, eg, plugins that we just built, to ensure precedence of those in the search path we can set our DESTDIR unprivileged install path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Then we can run ctest on the unprivileged install. The whole step looks something like this:
build $ make -j12 && \ rm -rf ../destdir && \ make -j12 DESTDIR=../destdir install && \\ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../destdir/usr/local/share/libwebsockets-test-server/plugins ctest -j2 --output-on-failure
On windows, it looks like ctest . -C DEBUG or RELEASE if that was the build type.
Good results look something like this (which tests can run depend on your build options)
Test project /projects/libwebsockets/build
Start 71: st_wcs_srv
Start 43: st_hcp_srv
1/73 Test #71: st_wcs_srv .................................. Passed 5.01 sec
Start 19: st_hcmp_srv
2/73 Test #43: st_hcp_srv .................................. Passed 5.01 sec
Start 17: st_hcm_srv
3/73 Test #19: st_hcmp_srv ................................. Passed 5.01 sec
Start 55: st_ssproxyctx
4/73 Test #17: st_hcm_srv .................................. Passed 5.01 sec
Start 52: st_ssproxy
5/73 Test #55: st_ssproxyctx ............................... Passed 1.02 sec
Start 67: st_sstfproxy
6/73 Test #52: st_ssproxy .................................. Passed 1.02 sec
Start 60: st_ssprxsmd_sspc
7/73 Test #67: st_sstfproxy ................................ Passed 1.01 sec
Start 63: st_mulssprxsmd_sspc
8/73 Test #60: st_ssprxsmd_sspc ............................ Passed 1.01 sec
Start 69: sspc-minimaltf
9/73 Test #63: st_mulssprxsmd_sspc ......................... Passed 1.02 sec
Start 73: ws-client-spam
10/73 Test #73: ws-client-spam .............................. Passed 12.21 sec
Start 57: sspc-minimaltx
11/73 Test #57: sspc-minimaltx .............................. Passed 5.90 sec
Start 65: mulsspcsmd_sspc
12/73 Test #65: mulsspcsmd_sspc ............................. Passed 3.58 sec
Start 62: sspcsmd_sspc
13/73 Test #62: sspcsmd_sspc ................................ Passed 1.73 sec
Start 22: http-client-multi-h1
14/73 Test #22: http-client-multi-h1 ........................ Passed 5.04 sec
Start 25: http-client-multi-stag
15/73 Test #25: http-client-multi-stag ...................... Passed 4.53 sec
Start 26: http-client-multi-stag-h1
16/73 Test #26: http-client-multi-stag-h1 ................... Passed 4.40 sec
Start 21: http-client-multi
17/73 Test #21: http-client-multi ........................... Passed 4.37 sec
Start 36: http-client-multi-post-h1
18/73 Test #36: http-client-multi-post-h1 ................... Passed 2.73 sec
Start 54: sspc-minimal
19/73 Test #54: sspc-minimal ................................ Passed 0.93 sec
Start 39: http-client-multi-post-stag
20/73 Test #39: http-client-multi-post-stag ................. Passed 2.29 sec
Start 40: http-client-multi-post-stag-h1
21/73 Test #69: sspc-minimaltf .............................. Passed 49.83 sec
Start 35: http-client-multi-post
22/73 Test #40: http-client-multi-post-stag-h1 .............. Passed 4.30 sec
Start 33: http-client-multi-restrict-nopipe-fail
23/73 Test #35: http-client-multi-post ...................... Passed 3.23 sec
Start 28: http-client-multi-stag-h1-pipe
24/73 Test #33: http-client-multi-restrict-nopipe-fail ...... Passed 2.86 sec
Start 32: http-client-multi-restrict-stag-h1-pipe
25/73 Test #28: http-client-multi-stag-h1-pipe .............. Passed 2.86 sec
Start 27: http-client-multi-stag-pipe
26/73 Test #32: http-client-multi-restrict-stag-h1-pipe ..... Passed 1.51 sec
Start 31: http-client-multi-restrict-stag-pipe
27/73 Test #27: http-client-multi-stag-pipe ................. Passed 1.52 sec
Start 34: http-client-multi-restrict-h1-nopipe-fail
28/73 Test #34: http-client-multi-restrict-h1-nopipe-fail ... Passed 2.78 sec
Start 46: http-client-post-m
29/73 Test #31: http-client-multi-restrict-stag-pipe ........ Passed 2.80 sec
Start 42: http-client-multi-post-stag-h1-pipe
30/73 Test #42: http-client-multi-post-stag-h1-pipe ......... Passed 1.51 sec
Start 41: http-client-multi-post-stag-pipe
31/73 Test #46: http-client-post-m .......................... Passed 1.59 sec
Start 48: http-client-post-m-h1
32/73 Test #48: http-client-post-m-h1 ....................... Passed 1.10 sec
Start 23: http-client-multi-pipe
33/73 Test #41: http-client-multi-post-stag-pipe ............ Passed 1.51 sec
Start 29: http-client-multi-restrict-pipe
34/73 Test #23: http-client-multi-pipe ...................... Passed 1.09 sec
Start 24: http-client-multi-h1-pipe
35/73 Test #29: http-client-multi-restrict-pipe ............. Passed 0.74 sec
Start 30: http-client-multi-restrict-h1-pipe
36/73 Test #24: http-client-multi-h1-pipe ................... Passed 1.14 sec
Start 45: http-client-post
37/73 Test #30: http-client-multi-restrict-h1-pipe .......... Passed 1.14 sec
Start 38: http-client-multi-post-h1-pipe
38/73 Test #45: http-client-post ............................ Passed 0.30 sec
Start 37: http-client-multi-post-pipe
39/73 Test #38: http-client-multi-post-h1-pipe .............. Passed 0.49 sec
Start 47: http-client-post-h1
40/73 Test #37: http-client-multi-post-pipe ................. Passed 0.31 sec
Start 50: hs_evlib_foreign_event
41/73 Test #47: http-client-post-h1 ......................... Passed 0.29 sec
Start 66: ss-tf
42/73 Test #50: hs_evlib_foreign_event ...................... Passed 22.02 sec
Start 49: hs_evlib_foreign_uv
43/73 Test #49: hs_evlib_foreign_uv ......................... Passed 21.03 sec
Start 51: ss-warmcat
44/73 Test #51: ss-warmcat .................................. Passed 2.69 sec
Start 59: ss-smd
45/73 Test #59: ss-smd ...................................... Passed 1.78 sec
Start 10: api-test-secure-streams
46/73 Test #10: api-test-secure-streams ..................... Passed 1.34 sec
Start 11: http-client-warmcat
47/73 Test #11: http-client-warmcat ......................... Passed 0.27 sec
Start 58: sspost-warmcat
48/73 Test #58: sspost-warmcat .............................. Passed 0.84 sec
Start 12: http-client-warmcat-h1
49/73 Test #12: http-client-warmcat-h1 ...................... Passed 0.25 sec
Start 2: api-test-jose
50/73 Test #2: api-test-jose ............................... Passed 0.27 sec
Start 70: ws-client-rx-warmcat
51/73 Test #70: ws-client-rx-warmcat ........................ Passed 0.27 sec
Start 56: ki_ssproxyctx
52/73 Test #56: ki_ssproxyctx ............................... Passed 0.12 sec
Start 68: ki_ssproxy
53/73 Test #68: ki_ssproxy .................................. Passed 0.11 sec
Start 64: ki_mulssprxsmd_sspc
54/73 Test #64: ki_mulssprxsmd_sspc ......................... Passed 0.10 sec
Start 61: ki_ssprxsmd_sspc
55/73 Test #61: ki_ssprxsmd_sspc ............................ Passed 0.11 sec
Start 13: http-client-h2-rxflow-warmcat
56/73 Test #13: http-client-h2-rxflow-warmcat ............... Passed 0.28 sec
Start 14: http-client-h2-rxflow-warmcat-h1
57/73 Test #14: http-client-h2-rxflow-warmcat-h1 ............ Passed 0.34 sec
Start 16: http-client-hugeurl-warmcat-h1
58/73 Test #16: http-client-hugeurl-warmcat-h1 .............. Passed 0.16 sec
Start 15: http-client-hugeurl-warmcat
59/73 Test #15: http-client-hugeurl-warmcat ................. Passed 0.16 sec
Start 72: ki_wcs_srv
60/73 Test #72: ki_wcs_srv .................................. Passed 0.12 sec
Start 44: ki_hcp_srv
61/73 Test #44: ki_hcp_srv .................................. Passed 0.11 sec
Start 20: ki_hcmp_srv
62/73 Test #20: ki_hcmp_srv ................................. Passed 0.11 sec
Start 18: ki_hcm_srv
63/73 Test #18: ki_hcm_srv .................................. Passed 0.11 sec
Start 7: api-test-lws_struct_sqlite
64/73 Test #7: api-test-lws_struct_sqlite .................. Passed 0.03 sec
Start 1: api-test-gencrypto
65/73 Test #1: api-test-gencrypto .......................... Passed 0.02 sec
Start 6: api-test-lws_struct-json
66/73 Test #6: api-test-lws_struct-json .................... Passed 0.01 sec
Start 4: api-test-lws_dsh
67/73 Test #4: api-test-lws_dsh ............................ Passed 0.01 sec
Start 8: api-test-lws_tokenize
68/73 Test #8: api-test-lws_tokenize ....................... Passed 0.01 sec
Start 9: api-test-lwsac
69/73 Test #9: api-test-lwsac .............................. Passed 0.00 sec
Start 3: api-test-lejp
70/73 Test #3: api-test-lejp ............................... Passed 0.00 sec
Start 53: ki_ssproxy
71/73 Test #53: ki_ssproxy .................................. Passed 0.11 sec
72/73 Test #66: ss-tf ....................................... Passed 55.51 sec
Start 5: api-test-lws_smd
73/73 Test #5: api-test-lws_smd ............................ Passed 4.22 sec
100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 73
Total Test time (real) = 137.76 sec
The default test timeout is 1500s, for that reason it's good practice to set a more suitable TIMEOUT property on every test.
Server-side test apps usually need to be run from their ./minimal-examples/... directory so they can access their assets like index.html etc.
However when building with -DLWS_WITH_MBEDTLS=1 then even client-side apps need to be run from their directory, since they need to get the trusted CA for warmcat.com or libwebsockets.org additionally.
For that reason it's good practice to set the WORKING_DIRECTORY property to the home dir of the example app in all cases.
Many networking tests need to either spawn a client or a server in order to have a “buddy” to talk to during the test for the opposing side. This is a bit awkward in cmake since it does not directly support spawning daemons as test dependencies.
Lws provides helper scripts for unix type targets in ./scripts/ctest-background.sh and ./scripts/ctest-background-kill.sh, which spawn background processes, save the pid in a decorated /tmp file and can later take the process down. This also has arrangements to dump the log of any background process that exited early.
To arrange the buddy to run aligned with the test, you first explain to cmake how to start and stop the buddy using phony tests to make a “fixture” in cmake terms.
In this example, taken from minimal-http-client-multi, we arrange for minimal-http-server-tls to be available for our actual test. The starting and stopping definition, for “st_hcm_srv” and “ki_hcm_srv”:
add_test(NAME st_hcm_srv COMMAND
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/ctest-background.sh
hcm_srv $<TARGET_FILE:lws-minimal-http-server-tls>
--port ${PORT_HCM_SRV} )
add_test(NAME ki_hcm_srv COMMAND
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/ctest-background-kill.sh
hcm_srv $<TARGET_FILE_NAME:lws-minimal-http-server-tls>
--port ${PORT_HCM_SRV})
... and binding those together so cmake knows they start and stop a specific named fixture “hcm_srv”, itself with an 800s timeout
set_tests_properties(st_hcm_srv PROPERTIES
WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/minimal-examples/http-server/minimal-http-server-tls
FIXTURES_SETUP hcm_srv
TIMEOUT 800)
set_tests_properties(ki_hcm_srv PROPERTIES
FIXTURES_CLEANUP hcm_srv)
... and finally, adding the “hcm_srv” fixture as a requirement on the actual test (http-client-multi) we are testing
set_tests_properties(http-client-multi
PROPERTIES
FIXTURES_REQUIRED "hcm_srv"
WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/minimal-examples/http-client/minimal-http-client-multi
TIMEOUT 50)
Once all that explaining is done, ctest itself will take care about starting and killing hcm_srv before and after http-client-multi test.
For tests with local buddies using tcp sockets inside the same VM or systemd- nspawn networking context, you cannot just use a well-known port like 7681.
ctest itself is usually executed concurrently, and Sai is typically building multiple different instances concurrently as well (typically 3), so it may be running different ctests inside the same VM simultaneously.
Different tests can have their own convention for port ranges, to solve the problem about Sai running different tests concurrently inside one ctest.
For the case there are multiple ctests running, we can use the env var $ENV{SAI_INSTANCE_IDX}, which is an ordinal like 0 or 1, to further ensure that port selections won't conflict. If not using Sai, you can just set this in the evironment yourself to reflect your build instance index.
#
# instantiate the server per sai builder instance, they are running in the same
# machine context in parallel so they can tread on each other otherwise
#
set(PORT_HCM_SRV "7670")
if ("$ENV{SAI_INSTANCE_IDX}" STREQUAL "0")
set(PORT_HCM_SRV 7671)
endif()
if ("$ENV{SAI_INSTANCE_IDX}" STREQUAL "1")
set(PORT_HCM_SRV 7672)
endif()
if ("$ENV{SAI_INSTANCE_IDX}" STREQUAL "2")
set(PORT_HCM_SRV 7673)
endif()
if ("$ENV{SAI_INSTANCE_IDX}" STREQUAL "3")
set(PORT_HCM_SRV 7674)
endif()
This is complicated enough that the best approach is copy an existing simple case like the CMakeLists.txt for minimal-http-client and change the names and ports to be unique.