Re: [Boost-users] Using Boost.Test in a dynamically loaded library

From: Florian Winter (fw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-05 03:41:52

Thanks for your reply.

I have considered another option that might be easier for us if it 
works: One of the options described in the documentation about compiling 
the unit test framework is "Including sources directly into test module 
project". This would normally lead to the same problems as the "include" 
option, however, we could include the Boost.Test sources into a separate 
shared library that we build using our own build system. Both our 
dynamically loaded library and our main application would link against 
this shared library to make sure the Boost.Test symbols are defined 
exactly once.

The benefit would be that we could use our own build system instead of 
treating Boost.Test as an external library. This would make things a lot 
easier for us because we have to support many platforms.

Do you think this would work? Or are there some other things to keep in 
mind or problems when building Boost.Test as a shared library that was 
not built in the standard way (i.e. using bjam on each platform)?

Best regards,

Florian Winter