In order to compile and install mockpp on your system, type the following in the base directory of the mockpp distribution:
%
./configure
%
make
%
make install
There are some options for configure you might be interested in:
By default mockpp uses standard 8bit wide strings (std::string
and const char* to be more precise). If you need basic support for
Unicode and it's 16bit or 32bit wide characters
you must add this parameter when invoking configure
.
This option generates and installs the api documentation. doxygen must be installed in this case.
If you what to generate and install the handbook, you must provide this parameter. docbook must be installed in this case.
Some environments don't use runtime type information to reduce the size of the footprint of the binaries. In this case the according debugging information is omitted.
Some environments don't use exceptions for similar reasons. All features based on try and catch statements don't work in this case and you must provide your own way to collect the test results.
By default mockpp is compiled with the C++ Standard Template Libray that comes with your compiler. Unfortunately the current implementations consume rather much resources. For that reason a built-in minimalistic STL can be used.
By default mockpp uses a built-in version of CxxTest as test framework. If you want to use another framework you should disable it to remove all internal dependencies. Please understand that in this case the unit tests won't run if you don't enable another supported framework instead.
Older compilers may not support namespaces properly. If you need such a compiler for a given environment you might try to disable namespaces for all built-in parts and maybe get enough of the files compile to build a basic test library. A lot of the files probably won't compile on such compilers due to the lack of template support.
In this case mockpp
resides in the global namespace. Additionally the built-in components ministl
and CxxTest are in the global namespace as well. This may lead to problems
when using other libraries which contain classes like Exception
or String
. There are also workarounds for certain elements
in the std
namespace.
This option enables CppUnit as test framework.
This option enables Boost.Test as test framework.
Normaly configure searches /usr/include
and
/usr/local/include
. In case there are multiple versions
the first directory is taken. If you have a non-standard include directory or
need as special version you will want to use this option.
Since mockpp uses autoconf and automake you should have no trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the Bug Tracker.
Once you have compiled the sources you should run the built-in checks to verify the correct behaviour on your platform:
%
make check