Peter wrote:
Hi I am using Boost.Test from the current boost 1.38 , on cygwin ( gcc ) and I want to use it with multiple test files and with shared libs ( in order to speed up the compilation time which is too long for me when using the header include variant ).
How much time speedup do you see?
I did the following:
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*I then link to boost_unit_test_framework-gcc34-mt-1_38.so The link passes , but I get a warning from gcc++ 3.4.4 that auto-linking has been enabled ( I will provide the exact details if useful ). I can execute the resulting mainTest.exe without problems, but the compiler warnings tells that something is not quite right.
Is the above example the right way to use multiple test files ?
Umm. Not really. There should be multiple translation units. BOOST_TEST_MAIN/BOOST_TEST_MODULE should be defined in only one of them. This way you should be able to speedup compilation even more.
Are the flags for shared libs correctly set ?
Compile time? Looks file. Can't tell you about link flags. What r u using as make system?
Thanks for your help.
PS: I think that Boost.Test is not easy to grasp ( at least for me ). I think this is partially due to a lack of complete examples ( involving for examples a test suite with more than one test file ).
There is one - example #10
Also the static/shared library topic and the related macros ( BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK etc ) could do with a concrete example. Maybe the
I believe there are couple in docs. Gennadiy