Auto-Registration failing in libs in VC++ 6.0
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I have been having trouble with the CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_REGISTRATION macro in a library. VC++ does not seem to recognize the fact that the test class is being stored in a static variable elsewhere. The net result of this is that the file does not get linked in, so the CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_REGISTRATION macro never get's executed and the test never gets added.
Has anyone else had this problem, or does anyone else know of a way to fix this aside from forcing a link by acessing a member of the CPP file from the executable?
Look at my 2 posts in the thread on "possible bugs in Registry extension files?".
I got the CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_REGISTRATION macro working by putting the CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_REGISTRATION macro for every test suite in the same file as a function that gets linked. This kept the MSVC linker happy. When I put each CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_REGISTRATION macro in the various cpp files where each test suite was defined, as any sane programmer would, my test suites were not added.
Hope this helps!
Mark Delaney
hmm-
My first foray into CppUnit was this past week- I had objects split into three files, say "object.h", "object.cpp", and "object_t.cpp". I put TEST_SUITE_REGISTRATION and all of the test code AND the CppUnit::TestCase-derived class definition in the _t.cpp file. Compiled and linked fine. I could take all of the _t.cpp files out of the project and everything still worked as it should have. I thought that was beauty.