On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:41:48PM -0500, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
I always find it confusing: why would you want to support both static and shared libraries? Pick one more convinient for you and stick with it. It's not like you need to test your test module with all variants of Boost.Test framework. It's your own test, not the test for the UTF. All in all I find an effort for simultanious support for both static and shared variant of the UTF a bit misguided.
OK. So reading this, I have the following question. Suppose I'm writing a nifty library and distributing the source code. I write unit tests using Boost.Test. Now I distribute my code -- together with the tests. Someone else builds my code on their system and runs the tests. I have no control over their install of Boost: they might have static libs, shared libs, or both. Can I write my unit tests so that they link and run in all three cases? Thanks, -Steve