[Boost-build] [Test] Dynamic-linking for msvc

From: Jürgen Hunold (hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-11 05:25:53

Hi !

The attached patch enables dynamic linking for Boost.Test and msvc.

The patch is against latest anonymous CVS (quite old) because I don't know how 
to get developer access.

Tested with msvc-7.1.
Caveats: some tests stop working due to unresolved symbols when using custon 
test-cases (see test-error.txt for details). All test using the auto-test 
cases and inlined testing are working.

And the patch enables "asynch-exception" for "execution_monitor.cpp" only.
And it makes the "minimal" target "explicit" because otherwise all users of 
Boost.Test will have "async-exceptions=on" in their property set. I discussed 
this with Dave some months ago but had no clear result... 

I think this feature is not working as expected. Running the tests manually 
(from status/ directory) the compilers issues warning when the 
execution_monitor is compiled _inline_ because the tests (e.g. BGL, 
multi_array) don't even do <use>/boost/test//minimal when they inline the 
test engine. And so they don't have /EHa on...

This is issue 78 on Volodya's issue tracker...

I don't think this patch will please everyone.
I think these issues should be sorted out before the final freeze ;-))

Yours,

Jürgen

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