Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Test] shared lib (.so) has no main(), static (.a) does

From: Jürgen Hunold (juergen.hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-15 03:12:51

Hi Chris !

An'n Maandag 14 Mai 2007 hett Chris Uzdavinis schreven:
> Hi, I'm trying out boost 1.34 and running into some troubles getting
> my test programs to link.  They were working fine with 1.33.1, and
> rebuilding with 1.34 now fails to find "main" in the boost unit test
> framework library.  After a little investigation, I found that the .so
> does not have main() in it, but the .a does.

Yes. 

> System: suse linux 9.1
> compiler: g++ 3.3.3
> boost version: 1.34
> $g++ mytest.cpp -I $BOOST_HDRDIR -L $BOOST_ROOT/lib
> -lboost_unit_test_framework-gcc33-mt-d

You have to define BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK when using the shared test library on 
all platforms.
Please try to add -DBOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK to your command line...

Yours,

Jürgen

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