ci: add the possitility to use other build generators than ninja inside the ci

.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml

@@ -67,7 +67,11 @@ on:
         type: string
       LOCAL_BASELINE_DIR:
         required: false
-        type: string  
+        type: string
+      BUILD_GENERATOR:
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: '--ninja'
     secrets:
       GOOGLE_CLOUD_GCP:
         required: false
@@ -140,6 +144,10 @@ jobs:
           script_args+=(--nproc ${NPROC})
         fi
 
+        if [[ -n "${{ inputs.BUILD_GENERATOR }}" ]]; then
+          script_args+=(${{ inputs.BUILD_GENERATOR }})
+        fi
+
         docker_args+=(${{ inputs.DOCKER_RUN_ARGS }})
 
         COMMIT=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}

.github/workflows/ci_tests.yml

@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ jobs:
           - name: Ubuntu CUDA debug (20.04, clang 10.0.0 + gcc 9.4.0, open-mpi 4.0.3, cuda-11.8.89)
             BUILD_AND_TEST_CLI_ARGS: "--build-exe-only --no-install-schema"
             CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Debug
+            BUILD_GENERATOR: "--ninja"
             DOCKER_REPOSITORY: geosx/ubuntu20.04-clang10.0.0-cuda11.8.89
             ENABLE_HYPRE_DEVICE: CUDA
             ENABLE_HYPRE: ON
@@ -288,6 +289,7 @@ jobs:
           - name: Ubuntu CUDA (20.04, clang 10.0.0 + gcc 9.4.0, open-mpi 4.0.3, cuda-11.8.89)
             BUILD_AND_TEST_CLI_ARGS: "--no-install-schema"
             CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release
+            BUILD_GENERATOR: "--ninja"
             DOCKER_REPOSITORY: geosx/ubuntu20.04-clang10.0.0-cuda11.8.89
             ENABLE_HYPRE_DEVICE: CUDA
             ENABLE_HYPRE: ON
@@ -297,11 +299,11 @@ jobs:
             DOCKER_RUN_ARGS: "--cpus=8 --memory=256g --runtime=nvidia --gpus all -v /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/:/usr/local/share/ca-certificates/llnl:ro"
             DOCKER_CERTS_DIR: "/usr/local/share/ca-certificates"
             DOCKER_CERTS_UPDATE_COMMAND: "update-ca-certificates"
-
           # compiler error in ElasticFirstOrderWaveEquationSEMKernel::StressComputation::launch in call to FE_TYPE::computeFirstOrderStiffnessTermX
           # - name: Rockylinux (8, clang 17.0.6, cuda 12.5)
           #   BUILD_AND_TEST_CLI_ARGS: "--no-run-unit-tests --no-install-schema"
           #   CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release
+          #   BUILD_GENERATOR: "--ninja"
           #   DOCKER_REPOSITORY: geosx/rockylinux8-clang17-cuda12.5
           #   RUNS_ON: streak2
           #   NPROC: 2
@@ -313,6 +315,7 @@ jobs:
           # - name: Rockylinux (8, gcc 8.5, cuda 12.5)
           #   BUILD_AND_TEST_CLI_ARGS: "--no-run-unit-tests --no-install-schema"
           #   CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release
+          #   BUILD_GENERATOR: "--ninja"
           #   DOCKER_REPOSITORY: geosx/rockylinux8-gcc8-cuda12.5
           #   RUNS_ON: streak2
           #   NPROC: 2
@@ -326,6 +329,7 @@ jobs:
     with:
       BUILD_AND_TEST_CLI_ARGS: ${{ matrix.BUILD_AND_TEST_CLI_ARGS }}
       CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: ${{ matrix.CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE }}
+      BUILD_GENERATOR: ${{ matrix.BUILD_GENERATOR }}
       DOCKER_CERTS_DIR: ${{ matrix.DOCKER_CERTS_DIR }}
       DOCKER_CERTS_UPDATE_COMMAND: ${{ matrix.DOCKER_CERTS_UPDATE_COMMAND }}
       DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG: ${{ needs.is_not_draft_pull_request.outputs.DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG }}

scripts/ci_build_and_test_in_container.sh

@@ -38,12 +38,18 @@ Usage: $0
       run a code build and test.
   --data-basename output.tar.gz
       If some data needs to be extracted from the build, the argument will define the tarball. Has to be a `tar.gz`.
+  --eclipse
+      Use "Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles" as build system generator.
   --exchange-dir /path/to/exchange
       Folder to share data with outside of the container.
   --host-config host-config/my_config.cmake
       The host-config. Path is relative to the root of the repository.
   --install-dir-basename GEOS-e42ffc1
       GEOS installation basename.
+  --makefile
+      Use "Unix Makefiles" as build system generator.
+  --ninja
+      Use "Ninja" as build system generator.
   --no-install-schema
       Do not install the xsd schema.
   --no-run-unit-tests
@@ -58,6 +64,8 @@ Usage: $0
       Basename of the json credentials file to connect to the sccache cloud cache.
   --test-code-style
   --test-documentation
+  --xcode
+      Use "Xcode" as build system generator.
   -h | --help
 EOF
 exit 1
@@ -68,10 +76,11 @@ exit 1
 or_die cd $(dirname $0)/..
 
 # Parsing using getopt
-args=$(or_die getopt -a -o h --long build-exe-only,cmake-build-type:,code-coverage,data-basename:,exchange-dir:,host-config:,install-dir-basename:,no-install-schema,no-run-unit-tests,nproc:,repository:,run-integrated-tests,sccache-credentials:,test-code-style,test-documentation,help -- "$@")
+args=$(or_die getopt -a -o h --long build-exe-only,cmake-build-type:,code-coverage,data-basename:,eclipse,exchange-dir:,host-config:,install-dir-basename:,makefile,ninja,no-install-schema,no-run-unit-tests,nproc:,repository:,run-integrated-tests,sccache-credentials:,test-code-style,test-documentation,xcode,help -- "$@")
 
 # Variables with default values
 BUILD_EXE_ONLY=false
+BUILD_GENERATOR=""
 GEOS_INSTALL_SCHEMA=true
 HOST_CONFIG="host-configs/environment.cmake"
 RUN_UNIT_TESTS=true
@@ -91,6 +100,9 @@ do
       RUN_UNIT_TESTS=false
       shift;;
     --cmake-build-type)      CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$2;        shift 2;;
+    --eclipse|--ninja|--xcode)
+        BUILD_GENERATOR=$1;
+        shift;;
     --data-basename)
       DATA_BASENAME=$2
       DATA_BASENAME_WE=${DATA_BASENAME%%.*}
@@ -104,6 +116,7 @@ do
     --exchange-dir)          DATA_EXCHANGE_DIR=$2;       shift 2;;
     --host-config)           HOST_CONFIG=$2;             shift 2;;
     --install-dir-basename)  GEOS_DIR=${GEOSX_TPL_DIR}/../$2; shift 2;;
+    --makefile)              BUILD_GENERATOR="";         shift;;
     --no-install-schema)     GEOS_INSTALL_SCHEMA=false; shift;;
     --no-run-unit-tests)     RUN_UNIT_TESTS=false;       shift;;
     --nproc)                 NPROC=$2;                   shift 2;;
@@ -211,7 +224,7 @@ fi
 # The option `--oversubscribe` tells OpenMPI to allow more MPI ranks than the node has cores.
 # This is needed because our unit test `blt_mpi_smoke` is run in parallel with _hard coded_ 4 ranks.
 # While some of our ci nodes may have less cores available.
-# 
+#
 # In case we have more powerful nodes, consider removing `--oversubscribe` and use `--use-hwthread-cpus` instead.
 # This will tells OpenMPI to discover the number of hardware threads on the node,
 # and use that as the number of slots available. (There is a distinction between threads and cores).
@@ -221,7 +234,7 @@ or_die python3 scripts/config-build.py \
                -bt ${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} \
                -bp ${GEOS_BUILD_DIR} \
                -ip ${GEOS_DIR} \
-               --ninja \
+               ${BUILD_GENERATOR} \
                -DBLT_MPI_COMMAND_APPEND='"--allow-run-as-root;--oversubscribe"' \
                -DGEOS_INSTALL_SCHEMA=${GEOS_INSTALL_SCHEMA} \
                -DENABLE_COVERAGE=$([[ "${CODE_COVERAGE}" = true ]] && echo 1 || echo 0) \
@@ -245,10 +258,10 @@ fi
 
 # Performing the requested build.
 if [[ "${BUILD_EXE_ONLY}" = true ]]; then
-  or_die ninja -j $NPROC geosx
+  or_die cmake --build . -j $NPROC --target geosx
 else
-  or_die ninja -j $NPROC
-  or_die ninja install
+  or_die cmake --build . -j $NPROC
+  or_die cmake --install .
 
   if [[ ! -z "${DATA_BASENAME_WE}" ]]; then
     # Here we pack the installation.
@@ -269,7 +282,7 @@ if [[ ! -z "${SCCACHE_CREDS}" ]]; then
 fi
 
 if [[ "${CODE_COVERAGE}" = true ]]; then
-  or_die ninja coreComponents_coverage
+  or_die cmake --build . --target coreComponents_coverage
   cp -r ${GEOS_BUILD_DIR}/coreComponents_coverage.info.cleaned ${GEOS_SRC_DIR}/geos_coverage.info.cleaned
 fi
 
@@ -284,9 +297,11 @@ fi
 
 if [[ "${RUN_INTEGRATED_TESTS}" = true ]]; then
   # We split the process in two steps. First installing the environment, then running the tests.
-  or_die ninja ats_environment
-
-  # The tests are not run using ninja (`ninja --verbose ats_run`) because it swallows the output while all the simulations are running.
+  or_die cmake --build . --target ats_environment
+
+  # The tests are not run using cmake (`cmake --build . --verbose  --target ats_run`)
+  # because with ninja it swallows the output while all the
+  # simulations are running.
   # We directly use the script instead...
   echo "Available baselines:"
   ls -lR /tmp/geos/baselines
@@ -321,7 +336,7 @@ if [[ "${RUN_INTEGRATED_TESTS}" = true ]]; then
 fi
 
 # Cleaning the build directory.
-or_die ninja clean
+or_die cmake --build . --target clean
 
 
 # Clean the repository