Re: [boost] [test] [build] best practices for looking up data files from test executables

Stefan Seefeld wrote:

Hi there,

I'm trying to write a test that needs to access a data file. As I'm surely not the first wanting to use external data in my tests, I wonder whether there are established "best practices" or idioms when using Boost.Build and Boost.Test.

Use the "input files" parameter of the run rule. run my_test.cpp : : my_datafile.txt ; This will pass my_datafile.txt (with the correct path) to your test executable in argv[1]. I just fixed the date_time tests in this manner: https://github.com/boostorg/date_time/commit/2434bc8f4d7e5d921eeccd4b138174e...