Re: [Boost-users] [test] build problem/regression with RC_1_34_0

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:

"Chris Hoeppler" wrote in message news:200611160706.29326.hoeppler@gmx.net...

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/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../crt1.o: In function `_start': init.c:(.text+0x18): undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Addidtional information: This is gcc-4.1.0 on linux. The boost libs were built with the boost build system. I am setting up test_suits as follows:

test_suite* init_unit_test_suite( int, char* [] ) { test_suite* test(BOOST_TEST_SUITE("Unit test macros"));

// <snip>

return test; }

Any idea what's going wrong?

I am not sure how did it work before,

It worked before because V2 was building DLL without setting BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK, so Boost.Test was defining the main function, and it worked.

but above code couldn't be used with DLL design that comes with 1.34. My guess is you somehow were using old dynamic library that only worked on non-NT platforms, but included main. With latest Volodia's changes you are now forced to comply to the proper interfaces in latest design.

And the primary reason for Jamfile change was that they worked differently from V1 Jamfiles. I have no opinion whether additional inconvenience on Linux outweight advantages of portability to Windows -- that's Gennadiy's design decision. - Volodya