Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Unable to build tests

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

Hi Gregory,

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Gregory Symons
<gs...@dr...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to build the tests using gcc 4.4 on linux, and I can't seem
> to figure out what's going wrong. Running cmake works fine, and the
> boost libraries are all found correctly, but when I run make, it fails
> to link on the first test:
>
> Linking CXX executable ../../../build/tests/cpp-netlib-http_1_0_test
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3/../../../../lib/crt1.o: In function
> `_start':
> (.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [build/tests/cpp-netlib-http_1_0_test] Error 1
> make[1]: ***
> [libs/network/test/CMakeFiles/cpp-netlib-http_1_0_test.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> My boost has everything built as shared libraries, so I've tried adding
> BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK and BOOST_TEST_MAIN to CXXFLAGS, but that doesn't
> seem to have an effect.
>
> Any ideas?
>

Actually, currently the unit tests require that Boost.Test be linked
in statically.

I haven't added in the capability for configuring the testing system
through CMake to accept these or additional settings.

HTH

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Dean Michael Berris
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