On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 20:50:08 Chris Molozian wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm sure that this is a rather daft question but I've tried to > search the d.learn mailing list and must have missed a question > about it. > > I've read the unit testing documentation on dlang.org and I know > that `unittest { /* some code */ }` blocks are compiled into the > executable and executed after static initialization and before > the main() function is called. This makes sense in an application > but how does this apply to a library? > > For example, writing a D library using DMD's `-lib` compiler > flag, how do I run the unit tests in the generated library?
You don't build it as a library when your unit testing it. You create an empty main, compile it all as an executable, and run it. I believe that rdmd --main will do this for you (rdmd comes with dmd), but I haven't really used rdmd, so I'm not 100% certain. - Jonathan M Davis