Compiling and using CppUTest 3.8 under MSYS2/MinGW32

[Jodocus]

Hi!

My problem is somewhat related to this one, though I am not sure if it got fixed over the years.
I want to compile cpputest inside a MSYS2 (MinGW-32) shell using cmake via

cd cpputest_build
cmake ..
make

Building libCppUTest.a and libCppUTestExt.a succeeded, but CppUTestTests failed with a lot of linker errors related to the C++ standard library (like undefined reference to __gxx_personality_v0'). When linking my unit tests with the libraries, I get pretty much the same errors, which however get resolved when I link with -lstdc++ additionally. Unfortunately, whenever a test assertion fails, the unit test will just crash ("This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way...") rather than generating output (e.g. JUnit report), so I guess something went wrong during the building process of CppUTest. What can I do about it? This problem already appears in very simple situations like

TEST(Group, SomeTest) {
    FAIL("always");
}

I am using GCC 6.3.0.

[Jodocus]

I figured it out. CMake auto-detected /mingw32/bin/cc.exe for a C and C++ compiler. However, this one doesn't seem to include -lstdc++, at least on MinGW. Running CMake as

cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/mingw32/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-c++.exe -DC++11=ON CMakeLists.txt

fixed the linker error issue. Same for the Runtime error: use again the same compiler binary such as i686-w64-mingw32-c++.exe for building the unit tests. Those errors seem to stem from awkward ABI incompatabilities between different GCC versions.