Any way to set mode from a phony target?

[dkaszews]

I have the following target for running coverage (and similar for performance tests):

target('coverage')
    set_kind('phony')
    on_run(function (target)
        assert(is_mode('coverage'), 'Incorrect mode, please set to coverage')
        os.exec('xmake build')
        os.exec('xmake test -v')
        os.exec('gcovr')
    end)

Is there a way for the target to instead set the mode to correct one? I tried os.exec('xmake f -m coverage'), but it does not seem to affect the following build and test until it is run again.

[waruqi]

you should use task to do it.

[dkaszews]

Could you please elaborate? Should I replace the target with a task, or create a separate task for setting mode? How that does that one differ from just running a command from target on_run?

I switched target('coverage') to task('coverage'), but xmake coverage results in:

error: invalid task: coverage

[waruqi]

you need add set_menu

https://xmake.io/#/manual/plugin_task

[dkaszews]

Thank you!

For any who find it, I am now using the following:

task('coverage')
    on_run(function (target)
        os.exec('xmake config --mode=coverage')
        os.exec('xmake build -v')
        os.exec('xmake test -v')
        os.exec('gcovr')
    end)
    set_menu {}

And running it with xmake coverage.