Re: [Boost-users] [boost.test] How to register custom exception for auto test?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost.test] How to register custom exception for auto test?
From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-12 21:55:45

Jörg Becker <news <at> familiebecker.com> writes:

> Hello again!
> 
> I just gave boost 1.55.0 with gcc 4.7.2 a try. But the old test in 
> my initial mail still results in unknown location(0): fatal error 
> in "exception1_test": unknown type.
> 
> Since I was sure I saw the custom exception handling working one day, 
> I tried the header only version by including 
> #include <boost/test/included/unit_test.hpp>.
> And  this time I saw the expected result: Caught my_exception1!!!
> 
> Unfortunately I have to use the dynamic library test variant. 
> So can anybody tell me how to enable the custom exception 
> handling for the dynamic test 
> library? What is the difference to the header-only variant 
> (concerning the exception handling).

Hi Jörg,

I think the only significant difference is that library is build using 
different build command. Maybe somehow it disables exceptions or something. 
Otherwise I do not see a reason for this to happend. Let me know if you ever 
figured out what was the root cause.

Regards,
Gennadiy