Compiling the tests

The libutest framework is designed for the tests to be compiled into a standalone executable. The installed library needs to be linked to the executable.

There are pkg-config data provided for ease of use.

Given the tests are in tests.c file, to compile you need to execute following command.

$ gcc -o test-exe tests.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libutest`
$ # Now you can run the tests
$ ./test-exe
....

11 assertions succeeded, 0 assertions failed
4 tests ran, 0 failed, 0 crashed
Time elapsed: 0.001 sec
$

If you used the provided default main, the behavior of the resulting executable can be tweaked using command line arguments. To print help about them, run the executable with --help (or -h for short).

Command line options

-h, --help: prints help about the options
-V, --version: prints version information
-q, --quiet: disables all output
-f, --no-fork: disables forking before executing tests
--color=WHEN: customize colorizing output. Default value for WHEN is auto, other possibilities are never and always