Unit tests

> 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

>
> See pull 363 and 442 :)
>