From: Xuzhou Cheng <xuzhou.ch...@windriver.com>
Commit dd2107497275 ("tests/libqtest: Use libqtest-single.h in tests that
require global_qtest")
moved global_qtest to libqtest-single.h, by declaring global_qtest
attribute to be common and weak.
This trick unfortunately does not work on Windows, and building
qtest test cases results in multiple definition errors of the weak
symbol global_qtest, as Windows PE does not have the concept of
the so-called weak symbol like ELF in the *nix world.
However Windows does provide a trick to declare a variable to be
a common symbol, via __declspec(selectany) [1]. It does not provide
the "strong override weak" effect but we don't need it in our use
case anyway. So let's use it for win32.
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/selectany
Signed-off-by: Xuzhou Cheng <xuzhou.ch...@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.m...@windriver.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Use __declspec(selectany) for the common weak symbol on Windows
tests/qtest/libqtest-single.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tests/qtest/libqtest-single.h b/tests/qtest/libqtest-single.h
index 4e7d0ae1dc..851724cbcb 100644
--- a/tests/qtest/libqtest-single.h
+++ b/tests/qtest/libqtest-single.h
@@ -13,7 +13,11 @@
#include "libqtest.h"
+#ifndef _WIN32
QTestState *global_qtest __attribute__((common, weak));
+#else
+__declspec(selectany) QTestState *global_qtest;
+#endif
/**
* qtest_start:
--
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