Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Unit tests

From: John Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:21:34 +0000

Oops, should have gone to the list

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Matt Corallo <[email-masked]>wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 07:06 -0700, Rick Wesson wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > Putting a bounty on the test framework might put some loose change to
> work.
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/googletest/ would be my choice
> >
> > the list of c++ frameworks is at
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks#C.2B.2B
>
> We already have boost testing framework implemented, it just doesn't
> have many tests.
>

BTW, talking about the unit testframework: It doesn't build here by default:

$ make -f makefile.unix test_bitcoin  USE_UPNP=

g++ -static  -o test_bitcoin  obj/test/test_bitcoin.o -Wl,-Bstatic -l
boost_system -l boost_filesystem -l boost_program_options -l boost_thread -l
db_cxx -l ssl -l crypto -Wl,-Bdynamic -l gthread-2.0 -l z -l dl -l pthread
-lboost_unit_test_framework
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../lib/crt1.o: In function
`_start':
(.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [test_bitcoin] Error 1

Two ways to fix this:

1) Add #define BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK  to the top of test_bitcoin.cpp. This is
needed for dynamic linking.

2) Link boost_unit_test_framework statically

test_bitcoin: obj/test/test_bitcoin.o
        $(CXX) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(LIBPATHS) $^ $(LIBS) -Wl,-Bstatic
-lboost_unit_test_framework -Wl,-Bdynamic

(yes, it needs the switch to dynamic again at the end, otherwise libgcc will
be linked statically which results in an error ...)

JS