diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 1b7cb2493a..64d84bca65 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ endif()
 
 # I don't know how to enable warnings properly so that they are enabled in Xcode projects as well
 if(${CMAKE_GENERATOR} STREQUAL "Xcode")
+  set (CMAKE_XCODE_GENERATE_SCHEME YES)
   set (CMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_CLANG_WARN_EMPTY_BODY YES)
   set (CMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_GCC_WARN_SHADOW YES)
   set (CMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_CLANG_WARN_BOOL_CONVERSION YES)
@@ -264,9 +265,40 @@ set(MEMORYCHECK_COMMAND_OPTIONS "--track-origins=yes --leak-check=full --trace-c
 # library so we can actually build the tests.
 option(BUILD_TESTING "Build the testing tree." OFF)
 
+# ROS2 build use BUILD_TESTING but it makes (1) little sense to include the Cyclone tests
+# in a ROS2 test run, and (2) some variant of the Windows CI platform ran into:
+#
+#    Auto build dll exports
+#
+#    $P: error MSB3073: The command "setlocal [C:\ci\ws\build\cyclonedds\src\core\ddsc.vcxproj]
+#    $P: error MSB3073: cd C:\ci\ws\build\cyclonedds\src\core [C:\ci\ws\build\cyclonedds\src\core\ddsc.vcxproj]
+#    $P: error MSB3073: if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :cmEnd [C:\ci\ws\build\cyclonedds\src\core\ddsc.vcxproj]
+#    ...
+#
+# where P = C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\MSBuild\
+#    ...Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(150,5)
+set(CYCLONEDDS_BUILD_TESTING "AUTO" CACHE STRING "Override regular BUILD_TESTING")
+set_property(CACHE CYCLONEDDS_BUILD_TESTING PROPERTY STRINGS ON OFF AUTO)
+if(NOT CYCLONEDDS_BUILD_TESTING STREQUAL "AUTO")
+  if(CYCLONEDDS_BUILD_TESTING)
+    if(NOT BUILD_TESTING)
+      message(WARNING "Enabling test code: CYCLONEDDS_BUILD_TESTING and not BUILD_TESTING")
+      set(BUILD_TESTING TRUE)
+    endif()
+  else()
+    if(BUILD_TESTING)
+      message(WARNING "Disabling test code: not CYCLONEDDS_BUILD_TESTING and BUILD_TESTING")
+      set(BUILD_TESTING FALSE)
+    endif()
+  endif()
+endif()
+
 # For special-purpose builds it can be useful to export all symbols from the library,
 # like we do when building the tests.
 option(EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS "Export all symbols from the library." OFF)
+if(BUILD_TESTING OR EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS)
+  message(STATUS "Exporting all symbols from library")
+endif()
 
 # Include the xtests for idlc. These tests use the idl compiler (C back-end) to
 # compile an idl file at (test) runtime, and use the C compiler to build a test
diff --git a/azure-pipelines.yml b/azure-pipelines.yml
index 87a563dc76..6ef8fae74b 100644
--- a/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -19,17 +19,17 @@ variables:
 
 jobs:
 - job: build_and_test
-  displayName: Build and test Cyclone
+  displayName: 'B&T'
   pool:
     vmImage: $(image)
   strategy:
     matrix:
-      'Ubuntu 22.04 (Release, x86_64)':
+      'Ub 22.04 (Rel, x86_64)':
         image: ubuntu-22.04
         build_type: Release
         sanitizer: undefined
         cc: gcc
-      'Ubuntu 24.04 (Debug, x86_64, Iceoryx)':
+      'Ub 24.04 (Deb, x86_64, Iceoryx)':
         image: ubuntu-24.04
         # No address sanitizer because of this in test run:
         #  Shadow memory range interleaves with an existing memory mapping.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ jobs:
         iceoryx: on
         cc: gcc
         coverage: on
-      'Ubuntu 24.04 (Debug, x86_64, Iceoryx2)':
+      'Ub 24.04 (Deb, x86_64, Iceoryx2)':
         image: ubuntu-24.04
         # No address sanitizer because of this in test run:
         #  Shadow memory range interleaves with an existing memory mapping.
@@ -51,13 +51,13 @@ jobs:
         iceoryx2: on
         cc: gcc
         coverage: on
-      'Ubuntu 24.04 (Release, x86_64)':
+      'Ub 24.04 (Rel, x86_64)':
         image: ubuntu-24.04
         build_type: Release
         sanitizer: undefined
         cc: gcc-14
         cxx: g++-14
-      'Ubuntu 24.04 with GCC 12 (Debug, x86_64, security only)':
+      'Ub 24.04 + GCC 12 (Deb, x86_64, security only)':
         image: ubuntu-24.04
         sanitizer: address,undefined
         ssl: off
@@ -67,62 +67,62 @@ jobs:
         topic_discovery: off
         idlc_xtests: off # temporary disabled because of passing -t option to idlc in this test for recursive types
         cc: gcc-12
-      'Ubuntu 24.04 with GCC 12 (Debug, x86_64, no tests)':
+      'Ub 24.04 + GCC 12 (Deb, x86_64, no tests)':
         image: ubuntu-24.04
         cc: gcc-12
         testing: off
         idlc_xtests: off
-      'Ubuntu 24.04 with Clang (Debug, x86_64)':
+      'Ub 24.04 + Clang (Deb, x86_64)':
         image: ubuntu-24.04
         analyzer: on
         sanitizer: address,undefined
         cc: clang
-      'Ubuntu 24.04 with Clang (Debug, x86_64, no security)':
+      'Ub 24.04 + Clang (Deb, x86_64, no security)':
         image: ubuntu-24.04
         sanitizer: address,undefined
         security: off
         cc: clang
-      'Ubuntu 24.04 with Clang (Release, x86_64, no topic discovery)':
+      'Ub 24.04 + Clang (Rel, x86_64, no topic discovery)':
         image: ubuntu-24.04
         build_type: Release
         sanitizer: undefined
         topic_discovery: off
         idlc_xtests: off # temporary disabled because of passing -t option to idlc in this test for recursive types
         cc: clang
-      'macOS 14 with Clang (Debug, x86_64)':
+      'macOS 14 + Clang (Deb, x86_64)':
         image: macos-14
         sanitizer: address,undefined
         deadline_update_skip: on
         cc: clang
         coverage: on
-      'macOS 14 with Clang (Release, x86_64)':
+      'macOS 14 + Clang (Rel, x86_64)':
         image: macos-14
         build_type: Release
         sanitizer: undefined
         cc: clang
-      'macOS 14 with GCC 14 (Debug, analyzer, x86_64)':
+      'macOS 14 + GCC 14 (Deb, analyzer, x86_64)':
         image: macos-14
         cc: gcc-14
         analyzer: on
       # 32-bit Windows: without SSL/security because Chocolateley only provides 64-bit OpenSSL
-      'Windows 2025 with Visual Studio 2022 (Debug, x86, no security)':
+      'Win 2025 + VS 2022 (Deb, x86, no security)':
         arch: x86
         image: windows-2025
         ssl: off
         security: off
         idlc_xtests: off
         generator: 'Visual Studio 17 2022'
-      'Windows 2025 with Visual Studio 2022 (Debug, x86_64)':
+      'Win 2025 + VS 2022 (Deb, x86_64)':
         image: windows-2025
         idlc_xtests: off
         generator: 'Visual Studio 17 2022'
-      'Windows 2025 with Visual Studio 2022 (Release, x86_64, no tests)':
+      'Win 2025 + VS 2022 (Rel, x86_64, no tests)':
         image: windows-2025
         build_type: Release
         testing: off
         idlc_xtests: off
         generator: 'Visual Studio 17 2022'
-      'Windows 2022 with Visual Studio 2022 (RelWithDebInfo, x86_64)':
+      'Win 2022 + VS 2022 (RelWithDebInfo, x86_64)':
         image: windows-2022
         build_type: RelWithDebInfo
         idlc_xtests: off
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ jobs:
       #  generator: 'MinGW Makefiles'
       #  cc: 'C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/gcc.exe'
       #  cxx: 'C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/g++.exe'
-      'Ubuntu 24.04 with default GCC (Release, Iceoryx, Static, x86_64)':
+      'Ub 24.04 Static (Rel, Iceoryx, x86_64)':
         image: ubuntu-24.04
         idlc_xtests: off
         build_type: Release
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/Generate.cmake b/cmake/Modules/Generate.cmake
index b1ab72709d..3bc3a158e8 100644
--- a/cmake/Modules/Generate.cmake
+++ b/cmake/Modules/Generate.cmake
@@ -227,8 +227,15 @@ function(IDLC_GENERATE_GENERIC)
   endforeach()
 
   add_custom_target("${_target}_generate" DEPENDS "${_outputs}")
+  if(${CMAKE_GENERATOR} MATCHES "Xcode")
+    set_target_properties("${_target}_generate" PROPERTIES XCODE_GENERATE_SCHEME NO)
+  endif()
+
   add_library(${_target} INTERFACE)
   target_sources(${_target} INTERFACE ${_outputs})
   target_include_directories(${_target} INTERFACE "${_dir}")
   add_dependencies(${_target} "${_target}_generate")
+  if(${CMAKE_GENERATOR} MATCHES "Xcode")
+    set_target_properties("${_target}" PROPERTIES XCODE_GENERATE_SCHEME NO)
+  endif()
 endfunction()
diff --git a/colcon.pkg b/colcon.pkg
index b7468da973..e0baf42507 100644
--- a/colcon.pkg
+++ b/colcon.pkg
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  "cmake-args": [ "-DBUILD_IDLC=AUTO" ]
+  "cmake-args": [ "-DBUILD_IDLC=AUTO", "-DBUILD_TESTING=0" ]
 }
diff --git a/src/core/ddsc/tests/cdrstream.c b/src/core/ddsc/tests/cdrstream.c
index 124034a467..0419d44c7e 100644
--- a/src/core/ddsc/tests/cdrstream.c
+++ b/src/core/ddsc/tests/cdrstream.c
@@ -2135,7 +2135,7 @@ CU_Test (ddsc_cdrstream, check_string_invalid)
     { D(t2, true, {'a','b'}, "cd", 3), 0,NULL, CDR(32,3) },
     { D(t3, true, { "a", {'c','d'} }, 5), 0,NULL, CDR(32,5) },
     { D(t4, true, CSEQ0, STRSB({'c','d'}), 7), 0,NULL, CDR(32,7) },
-    { D(t5, true, { 2, { .ws1 = "ab" } }, 11), 0,NULL, CDR(32,11) },
+    { D(t5, true, { 2, { .ws1 = {'a','b'} } }, 11), 0,NULL, CDR(32,11) },
     { D(t5, true, { 4, { .ws1bs = STRSB({'c','d'}) } }, 13), 0,NULL, CDR(32,13) },
     { D(t5, true, { 5, { .ws1a = { "a", {'c','d'} } } }, 17), 0,NULL, CDR(32,17) },
     { D(t5, true, { 6, { .ws1abs = { CSEQ0, STRSB({'c','d'}) } } }, 19), 0,NULL, CDR(32,19) },