Re: [boost] [test] [build] best practices for looking up data files from test executables

Subject: Re: [boost] [test] [build] best practices for looking up data files from test executables
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-11-13 20:52:44

Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to write a test that needs to access a data file. As I'm surely 
> not the first wanting to use external data in my tests, I wonder whether 
> there are established "best practices" or idioms when using Boost.Build 
> and Boost.Test.

Use the "input files" parameter of the run rule.

run my_test.cpp : : my_datafile.txt ;

This will pass my_datafile.txt (with the correct path) to your test 
executable in argv[1].

I just fixed the date_time tests in this manner:

https://github.com/boostorg/date_time/commit/2434bc8f4d7e5d921eeccd4b138174eddd50d18c