I downloaded the CppUnit Test Library (V 1.12.1) and try to run a helloworldUnitTest sample program.

My eclipse was running under Fedora Core 12. I have modified the GCC C++ Linker libraries setting as follows:
-lcppunit -ldl

C++ Linker libraries search path as follows:
/usr/local/include/cppunit

The following are the files in /usr/local/lib
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 2010-03-23 21:57 .
drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root 4096 2010-02-18 19:51 ..
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 24 2010-03-23 21:57 libcppunit-1.12.so.1 -> libcppunit-1.12.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1995655 2010-03-23 21:57 libcppunit-1.12.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3489210 2010-03-23 21:57 libcppunit.a
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 844 2010-03-23 21:57 libcppunit.la
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 24 2010-03-23 21:57 libcppunit.so -> libcppunit-1.12.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 803996 2010-03-04 20:46 libgmp.a
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 785 2010-03-04 20:46 libgmp.la
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 2010-03-04 20:46 libgmp.so -> libgmp.so.3.6.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 2010-03-04 20:46 libgmp.so.3 -> libgmp.so.3.6.0
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 450671 2010-03-04 20:46 libgmp.so.3.6.0
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 557222 2010-03-04 20:57 libmpfr.a
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 923 2010-03-04 20:57 libmpfr.la
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 2010-03-04 20:57 libmpfr.so -> libmpfr.so.1.2.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 2010-03-04 20:57 libmpfr.so.1 -> libmpfr.so.1.2.0
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 332832 2010-03-04 20:57 libmpfr.so.1.2.0
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 2010-03-23 21:58 pkgconfig

While the project compile and linked successfully. It has the following execution error:

/helloWorldCppUnit/Debug/helloWorldCppUnit: error while loading shared libraries: libcppunit-1.12.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can anyone please help on this ?

-aayu09

Q: Does it work if you set $LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the command line?

Q: Does "ls -lL /usr/local/lib/libcppunit-1.12.so.1" indicate that your symbolic link is OK?

Q: Does "ldd /helloWorldCppUnit/Debug/helloWorldCppUnit" show you the shared libraries you expect, in the locations you expect?

Please post back any specific error messages you might see (use the "code" tags to do this).

And these links might help:

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs3214s/...ppunitSol.html

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ai...ools2_cppunit/

Thanks for the response.

I am using eclipse IDE. Here it the results of to Question 2:
ls -il libcppunit-1.12.so.1
205760 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 24 2010-03-23 21:57 libcppunit-1.12.so.1 -> libcppunit-1.12.so.1.0.0

The results to Question 3:
ldd helloWorldCppUnit
linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00504000)
libcppunit-1.12.so.1 => not found
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00bfa000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x046d2000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00c1d000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00523000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00a83000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00a61000)

Don't know why libcppunit-1.12.so.1 can not be found by during run time.

Thanks for the help.

aayu09

some additional info from the from IDE:

**** Build of configuration Debug for project helloWorldCppUnit ****

make all
Building file: ../src/helloWorldCppUnit.cpp
Invoking: GCC C++ Compiler
g++ -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -MMD -MP -MF"src/helloWorldCppUnit.d" -MT"src/helloWorldCppUnit.d" -o"src/helloWorldCppUnit.o" "../src/helloWorldCppUnit.cpp"
Finished building: ../src/helloWorldCppUnit.cpp

Building target: helloWorldCppUnit
Invoking: GCC C++ Linker
g++ -L/usr/local/include/cppunit -L/usr/local/lib -o"helloWorldCppUnit" ./src/helloWorldCppUnit.o -lcppunit -ldl
Finished building target: helloWorldCppUnit

Hi -

Thank you for the additional info:
I suspect the symbolic link is messed up

Hi Thanks. See the following:

$ ls -lL libcppunit-1.12.so.1
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1995655 2010-03-23 21:57 libcppunit-1.12.so.1

The symbolic link looks fine, what else could be wrong?

Hi -

Try something like this:
Please cut/paste the results.

Good luck!

.. PSM

Hi PSM,

I have followed your suggestion. It worked fine now under command line. Please see the following when executing the commands:

[Alex@Dog lib]$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
[Alex@Dog lib]$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/local/lib:

[Alex@Dog lib]$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libcppunit-1.12.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 24 2010-03-23 21:57 /usr/local/lib/libcppunit-1.12.so.1 -> libcppunit-1.12.so.1.0.0
[Alex@Dog lib]$ ls -lL /usr/local/lib/libcppunit-1.12.so.1
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1995655 2010-03-23 21:57 /usr/local/lib/libcppunit-1.12.so.1

[Alex@Dog Debug]$ ldd helloWorldCppUnit
linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00b93000)
libcppunit-1.12.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libcppunit-1.12.so.1 (0x007a9000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00bfa000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x046d2000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00c1d000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00523000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00110000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00a61000)

[Alex@Dog Debug]$ ./helloWorldCppUnit
Test::testHelloWorldHello, world!
: OK


Great!

If you don't mind, I will take one step further, why Eclipse IDE does not work? I have added the path (/usr/local/lib) to the library path

Thanks again.

--aayu

Hi,

It's quite an old topic, but I have exactly the same problem as you, and I've been stuck for a while...
Did you find a solution ?

Cheers,
Nielk

If anyone is interested, I found a (not so elegant) fix...
It seems that the eclipse terminal is not aware of system variables, even if they are exported from inside eclipse
So a solution is to add it manually in the run configuration file, i.e. add a LD_LIBRARY_PATH with the appropriate list of directories...

Hope that can help someone one day !

Hey Nielk:

I am revisiting this post, and still interested in the cppunit sample. Could you please specify how to add the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the IDE ? Please list the details steps if possible.

Thanks,

-aayu

I am using Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo), and on this version the procedure is the following :
- click on the arrow next to the "Run" button, then on "Run configuration..." in the menu.
- in the new configuration window, check that the relevant project is selected, on the left pane.
- on the right pane, click on the "Environment" Tab, and add the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the list, with appropriate value ("New" button).

It works fine with me too using your trick. Thanks.