Test the simdutf backend in CI

JSON_USE_SIMDUTF was documented and shipped but never compiled by anything in
the repository, so nothing held the backend to the behavior the docs promise.

Add JSON_TestSimdutf (OFF by default), which fetches simdutf and defines
JSON_USE_SIMDUTF for every test target, and a ci_test_simdutf target that runs
the whole suite in that configuration. Because simdutf needs C++17, the suite is
built at C++11 as well, so one job covers both the scalar fallback with the
macro defined and simdutf itself.

The dependency hangs off test_main, whose usage requirements every test target
inherits. The library target and the installed CMake package are deliberately
untouched: making nlohmann_json link simdutf would put a find_dependency() in
the exported package, which is a separate decision.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MXDi7NTMKAmoArUZSKMc4T
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Niels Lohmann
2026-08-28 14:59:30 +00:00
committed by Claude
co-authored by Claude
parent feed1a48a4
commit e2f1b04084
4 changed files with 65 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -212,6 +212,24 @@ add_custom_target(ci_test_legacycomparison
COMMENT "Compile and test with legacy discarded value comparison enabled"
)
###############################################################################
# Validate UTF-8 with simdutf.
###############################################################################
add_custom_target(ci_test_simdutf
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -GNinja
-DJSON_BuildTests=ON -DJSON_TestSimdutf=ON
# simdutf needs C++17, so the library falls back to its scalar validator
# below that: build the suite at C++11 to cover the fallback with the macro
# defined, and at C++17 to run every test against simdutf itself
"-DJSON_TestStandards=11\;17"
-S${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR} -B${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_simdutf
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_simdutf
COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_simdutf && ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND} --parallel ${N} --output-on-failure
COMMENT "Compile and test with simdutf UTF-8 validation enabled"
)
###############################################################################
# Enable brace-init copy semantics.
###############################################################################