Re: [Boost-users] beginner question about boost Unit test framework

From: Jason Stewart (jstewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-20 09:28:44

I had a similar problem because I accidentally tried to build a GUI program 
instead of a console program. When I used the linker flag 
"/subsystem:console" it fixed the problem.

Jason

At 05:52 PM 7/19/2005, you wrote:
>I am using VC6.0 so I can not use boost1.32.
>I tried the boost1.31 example, I got the same link error.
>
>Below is the command I used for linking...
>
>cl  /nologo /EHsc- /Zi /Yd /Od /MDd /Zm200
>/FD -D_DEBUG_MEMORY -I. -I.\include -IC:\dev\head\server\boost_
>1_31_0 /Fe..\bin\test_cmdparse.exe test_cmdparse.obj -link
>C:\dev\head\server\boost_1_31_0\stage\lib\libboost_test_exec_monitor-vc6-m
>t-gd-1_31.lib
>C:\dev\head\yukon-server\boost_1_31_0\stage\lib\libboost_unit_test_framework-vc6-mt-gd-1_31.lib 
>
>C:\dev\head\yukon-server\boost_1_31_0\stage\lib\libboost_prg_exec_monitor-vc6-mt-gd-1_31.lib
>
>From: "Dave Steffen" <dgsteffen_at_[hidden]>
> >J Liu writes:
> > >
> > > I am using Boost 1.31 with VC 6.0. I am testing the simplest
> > > example provided in the boost document. It seems "boost::unit_test"
> > > is not a valid namespace. After I change it to
> > > "boost::unit_test_framwork", it can compile but can not link, the
> > > error I got is "LINK : fatal error LNK1561: entry point must be
> > > defined".
> >
> > IIRC there were significant changes to the unit test framework
> > between V1.31 and V1.32, and the document you're looking at almost
> > certainly describes 1.32.  Try upgrading Boost and see what happens.
> >
> > (The 1.32 version of the unit test framework was actually a big
> > influence on our decision to officially move our code base from using
> > 1.31 to 1.32.)
> >
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