boost, boost_unit_test_framework
Mattias Brändström
thebrasse@brasse.org
Sat Oct 15 14:25:00 GMT 2005
Václav Haisman wrote:
> Mattias Brändström wrote:
>>bjam -sTOOLS=gcc --with-test stage
>>
>>And that command produced the test libraries for me. The only difference
>>from your libraries was that their extension was .lib instead of .a. How
>>did you manage to get .a libraries? Is there any difference between .a
>>and .lib in Cygwin?
>
> Are you sure that you are using Cygwin's GCC? Or even any GCC? For me,
> Boost produces only .a archives or .dlls.
>
Yes, I am quite sure. I use a freshly installed Cygwin and I guess that
the boost build scripts will compile with gcc if I compile the way I
descibed above.
>>In what way is the test libraries broken under Cygwin?
>
> Unless I add --without-test I get this error after which the whole build
> process tops:
>
> unknown target type for
> <@boost!libs!test!build>libboost_prg_exec_monitor.dll
>
Have you tried to just compile the test libraries? If I remember
correctly, building dynamic test libraries is indeed broken under Cygwin
but static libraries should work.
:.:: mattias
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