Simplest approach is to use dynamic library variant of the UTF I have noticed that I don't have to pass any libraries to the compiler and everything links fine when #defining BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK, however
I believe you still have to, isn't it? I don't have to. When I copy the contents of Example 9 into a cpp file and then run g++ on it, if the macro BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK is #defined, I have to wait a little bit, but I get no linking errors at all. I just run 'g++ file.cpp' with no additional parameters... And it works even when BOOST_TEST_NO_LIB is #defined. Strange, isn't it?
it takes a lot of time to compile. I am on Linux and I use autotools that pass the -lboost_unit_test_framework-mt flag to the linker.
What does this lead to? I mean will it link with static or shared library? It should mean the dynamic one (they have the same name, but shared
Thank you for your reply, linking is the default one. But this probably has no effect) When you #define BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK, you don't have to worry about linking (see above). When you don't #define BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK, you get quite a lot of errors about wrong parameters (still when compiling the Example 9 from the boost manual). These are those errors (after #defining BOOST_TEST_NO_MAIN): test.cpp: In function 'int main(int, char**)': test.cpp:34: error: invalid conversion from 'bool (*)()' to 'boost::unit_test::test_suite* (*)(int, char**)' test.cpp:34: error: initializing argument 1 of 'int boost::unit_test::unit_test_main(boost::unit_test::test_suite* (*)(int, char**), int, char**)' Example 9: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/libs/test/doc/html/utf/user-guide/test-...
However, I still get undefined references or compilation errors when BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK is not defined...
Please post them.
Let's forget about undefined references, the problem seems to be that the library has different function forms depending whether the BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK is #defined or not. What is annoying is that It takes quite a long time to compile the tests and I suspect that some invisible linking or compilation of Boost testing library is taking place there. Any ideas? Regarding automatic registration: I had problems with it because I have not #defined the BOOST_TEST_DYN_LIN symbol. Now everything seems to be OK to me. Thank you very much for your help. How could I contribute to the documentation? I think that what I have learned may be useful to others Matej