Can we get unitests to not run with program start ?

Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Oct 27 06:09:49 PDT 2016


On 10/26/16 1:24 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> Seriously that makes no sense, almost everybody has it own hack to have
> a different main when building for unitests, and we look like clown.
>
> We all like to talk about language feature and all, but seriously, this
> kind of thing is what hurts us the most. We kind of live with it because
> we all have our workaround here, but really, it looks stupid to anyone
> that don't the tricks, and really, it should looks silly to anyone that
> knows the trick.
>
> Can I have my unittest build do not complain if there is no main and not
> run main ?
>

I'm with you 100%. This isn't even that hard, and doesn't require DMD 
changes. The runtime can exit if it runs any unit tests before calling main.

-Steve


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