Re: [Boost-users] [test] testing protected/private methods out of test suits

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [test] testing protected/private methods out of test suits
From: trashing_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-09-19 15:37:01

>Hi,
> 
>>I'm not sure I understand the problem.  This hack works regardless of
>>the library decomposition.  Visibility is purely a source-code
>>concern, just include #defines and the header declaring the class and
>>you can access anything even if it is in a different library.
>
>I don't believe this is true for all compilers or in all cases.  For example, >changing the member visibility in a class I worked on broke binary >compatibility in a library I built with MSVC++ 8.  Similar complications may >arise when using symbol hiding techniques, such as compiler-specific symbol >visibility support, link scripts, etc

I've exactly that problem with MSVC++7.x. Compiling the class_to_test in the library with protected methods and trying to access this methods out from the test_case_class by including the header and #define protected public, gives me a "symbol not found compiler error". :-/