[Boost-users] using libbost_test_exec_monitor with Visual Studio 2008?

From: Ákos Maróy (akos_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-24 04:51:53

Hi,

I'm having troulbe using libboost_text_exec_monitor with Visual Studio 
2008. Basically a very simple test application, that initializes a test 
suite in an init_unit_test_suite() function fails to link on Visual 
Studio, when trying to link against both 
libboost_unit_test_framework-vc90-mt-gd-1_35.lib and 
libboost_test_exec_monitor-vc90-mt-gd-1_35.lib . I'm egetting an error 
of LNK2019 saying that int __cdecl test_main(int, char ** const) is an 
unresolved external symbol. The error, strangely enough, is reported 
from libboost_test_exec_monitor-vc90-mt-fd-1_35.lib(test_main.obj), 
being a reference from the function test_main_caller::operator().

The same code compiles & links fine using gcc on Linux, linking to the 
same libraries (of course without the -vc90-mt-fd-1_35 suffix). The code 
is simply:

#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>

using namespace boost::unit_test;

void test() {
     BOOST_CHECK(true);
}

test_suite *
init_unit_test_suite(int, char **) {
     test_suite *ts = BOOST_TEST_SUITE("Test");
     ts->add(BOOST_TEST_CASE(&test));
     framework::master_test_suite().add(ts);

     return 0;
}

Shall I add something to the above code? shouldn't the text_exec_monitor 
library contain test_main?

Akos