Re: Linker missing SenTestingKit should, et.al building debug OmniFoundation unit tests on 10.4 Intel

FROM : Chris Hanson
DATE : Wed Aug 30 09:18:53 2006

On Aug 28, 2006, at 8:44 PM, Dominic Cooney wrote:

> I'm a Mac OS X neophyte taking refuge from Windows. I'm having a
> little trouble building Omni's source code product. Has anyone
> encountered this particular issue--linker unsatisfied for
> should/shouldBeEqual/etc. already?


It's important to mention what development environment and operating 
system version you're using.

I suspect you're using Xcode 2.3 or 2.4, where certain of the 
original OCUnit macros were deprecated, and Omni's project is built 
for Xcode 2.2 or an earlier version where those macros were still 
available.  If you look at <SenTestingKit/SenTestCase_Macros.h> you 
can see the preprocessor symbol you need to define in order to enable 
these deprecated macros for your target or project.

The reason these macros were deprecated is that any macros pollute 
the global namespace, and the STAssert... prefixed macros don't have 
nearly the potential for conflict with regular identifiers that 
macros like "should" and "fail" do.  In fact, "fail" conflicts with 
an identifier in Standard C++ which can be an issue if you try to 
write unit tests for Objective-C++ code.

  -- Chris