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Fix: How to run CTest with coverage by Visual Studio 2019 from the command line?

 To run CTest with coverage by Visual Studio 2019 from the command line, you can use the `ctest` command and specify code coverage options. Here are the steps to achieve this: 1. **Generate Code Coverage Data**:    Before running CTest with coverage, you need to ensure that your CMake configuration generates code coverage data. You can do this by adding the following lines to your `CMakeLists.txt`:    ```cmake    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "--coverage")    set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "--coverage")    set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "--coverage")    ```    These flags will enable code coverage instrumentation. 2. **Build Your Project**:    Make sure you build your project with these new CMake settings. You can use `cmake` to configure and `cmmake --build` to build your project:    ```bash    cmake --build . --config Release    ``` 3. **Run Tests with CTest**:    After building, you can use CTest to run your tests:    ```bash    ctest    ```    Ensure that your tests include both