Re: [Boost-users] [test] manual test suite initialization: linking problems

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [test] manual test suite initialization: linking problems
From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-16 13:37:01

Matthias Vallentin <vallentin <at> icsi.berkeley.edu> writes:

> 
> I found an old thread [1] from 2007where it is advised to use 
> the following combination if one wants to use dynamic linking 
> and manual registration:
> 
>     If you insist on combination of manual registration with 
>     shared library, it should look like this: 
> 
>     int 
>     main( int argc, char* argv[] ) 
>     { 
>     return ::boost::unit_test::unit_test_main( &init_unit_test, 
>         argc, argv ); 
>     }
> 
> Is this still the way to do it? 

Yes.

> I tried to apply the technique as follows:
> 
>     #define BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK
>     #define BOOST_TEST_ALTERNATIVE_INIT_API

Second macro should not be necessary. BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK already causes 
BOOST_TEST_ALTERNATIVE_INIT_API to be defined.

> That, however, gives me the following run-time error:
> 
>     Running Test setup error: signal: SIGABRT (
>             application abort requested)

Can you see where it's aborting?

Gennadiy