Running unittests in a D library

[Flamaros]

On Thursday, 20 September 2012 at 18:31:38 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2012-09-20 13:14, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:34:50 Johannes Pfau wrote:
>>> But it should be possible.
>>
>> I'm not arguing that it shouldn't be possible. I'm just 
>> pointing out that it
>> wouldn't really be useful. You have to build at least two 
>> versions of your
>> library anyway (one with -unittest and one without), so being 
>> forced to build
>> your library as a binary for unit tests really isn't a big 
>> deal IMHO. But I
>> have no problem with it working to link in a library built 
>> with -unittest and
>> have its unit tests run.
>
> You'll most likely have a release and debug version anyway. 
> Just put the unit tests in the debug version.

I have the same issue.

My point is related to IDE usage, I need provide a library for my 
samples projects and for users. I don't want have to create 2 
projects of my "library" one with a main and one without, because 
in this case each time I add or remove a file I need do this 
manipulation for both projects.

I try the "-main" option of dmd that need "add default main() 
(e.g. for unittesting)", reading it like that I though it was 
exactly to be able to put a library project as executable.

PS : I am using VisualD and MonoD.

I also searched if it is possible to create one d file that 
imports all my library sources just like we do with a #include 
"build-all.c".

Sadly we can't create a Visual project that contains only D 
sources without any building steps, instead we could put this 
project of files references as dependency. All samples projects 
would be build with the library code.