[Boost-testing] Re: [mslater] missing serialization and serialization-dependant tests

From: Joaquin M Lopez Munoz (joaquin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-13 06:00:32

Martin Slater <mslater <at> hellinc.net> writes:

> 
> Joaquín Mª López Muñoz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Mslater seems not to be running serialization tests for msvc, and
> > neither
> > those tests that depend on the serialization lib. IMHO this is
> > unfortunate,
> > seems currently this is the only regression runner covering msvc.
> > Is there any chance this could be fixed? Maybe this has to do with the
> > fact that on MSVC++ 6.0 the version 1.6 of Spirit is needed in order
> > to build Boost.Serialization.
> 
> I'll have a look into why they are not running, I'm not doing anything 
> special to avoid them so I'm not sure what is going on. Maybe they are 
> just not supported with this compiler.

I can confirm Boost.Serialization works for MSVC++ 6.0.

> Anyway i'll let you know if i can 
> find the cause, or if anyone knows (Robert?) what I need to do i'll get 
> it running asap.
> 

I suspect it's the problem I mentioned about MSVC++ 6.0
requiring Spirit v1.6 instead of the CVS version. This
is explained in detail here:

http://boost.org/libs/serialization/doc/release.html#Platforms

HTH,

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo