Ability to detect boost unit test in an executable

[Rich Chiodo <rchiodo@…>]

I'd like to make it possible for tools to detect if the boost::test framework is being used or not. Right now tools have to parse PDB files for boost::unit_test related symbols and this can be buggy. (Like MSVC /FASTLINK breaking symbol searches)

I propose adding something like so to boost\test\unit_test.hpp

Define a guid such that external tools can determine if an executable is a boost unit test executable or not. #ifdef BOOST_MSVC declspec(dllexport) const char * customCE69DB72_boost_test_identifier = "CE69DB72-CB65-4FDE-A94C-56C871E976D7"; #endif

This puts the guid CE69DB72-CB65-4FDE-A94C-56C871E976D7 into the string table of the final exe and can be searched by tools (instead of requiring the pdb).

[Raffi Enficiaud]

Please explain what would be the usage scenario of this?

[Raffi Enficiaud]

Feel free to reopen an issue on GitHub if this feature is still needed.