How To Install UnitTest++

2012-06-05

In my opingion UnitTest++ is the most awsome unit testing framework for C++ ever created. The only minor downside is that the library misses an install rutine for when built with make.

I actually wrote the procedure down a while ago, but apperently I don't have this article online anymore. So here I will post it again.

The actual procedure is quite simple, first you build the library are normal:

make

I am assuming that you want to install it to the common location /usr/local. If you fancy a different place, you just need to change that bit.

The first step is to create any missing folders:

mkdir /usr/local/include/UnitTest++
mkdir /usr/local/include/UnitTest++/Posix
mkdir /usr/local/include/UnitTest++/Win32

And now you copy the files:

cp src/*.h /usr/local/include/UnitTest++
cp src/Posix/*.h /usr/local/include/UnitTest++/Posix
cp src/Win32/*.h /usr/local/include/UnitTest++/Win32
cp libUnitTest++.a /usr/local/lib

Note, that I included both the Win32 and Posix headers. You actually just need one set of them and can skip the other. I include it, since people acutally use MinGW32 (for example me) and there the Win32 headers come into play.