you also might want to have a look at google test. at first glance, it seems to satisfy your needs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Test On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:45 AM, John Tall <mjta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > I'm about to start working on a new GTK+ application that will be > written in C. I want to use unit tests, probably the GTest APIs from > GLib. > > I've used the GTest APIs before when building a library. What I did > then was that I put all the source code for the library in one > directory, all unit tests in another directory. Using Automake I built > each unit test as a standalone program that linked to the library, and > could just run each unit test to test the library. > > This time however I'm building an application, so it will already have > its own main routine. I can't link my unit tests to the application > because that would give me two main routines, the main entry point of > the application and the main entry point of the unit test. So my > question is how to construct the application so that I can test it > with unit tests? > > My first thought was to just build the entire application as a library > and link the unit tests with it, then all I would need for the actual > application would be a separate program that just creates an instance > of my GtkApplication subclass and runs it. It would be small enough > that it doesn't need any unit tests, and I could even link it > statically when installing the program. > > This sounds to me like the perfect solution, but I haven't found other > applications that follows the same approach. I would therefore like to > ask if this is a good idea or if there are better ways to do this? > Especially if there are good examples from existing applications that > I could look at that would be very useful. > > John > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list >
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