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

From: Gennaidy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-25 05:25:19

Ákos Maróy <akos <at> maroy.hu> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having troulbe using libboost_text_exec_monitor with Visual Studio 

This component is deprecated and you shouldn't use it.

> 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. 

This is definitely an error. These are not intended to be used together. You
should get tons of duplicate symbol errors.

> I'm getting 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:

Strange.
 
> #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;
> }

Looks like you are using manual but straitforward test unit registration with
unit test framework
 
> Shall I add something to the above code? shouldn't the text_exec_monitor 
> library contain test_main?

No. In fact, you have to delete something ;) Specifically reference to
test_exec_monitor from link line and it will work fine.

Gennadiy