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<title>catch3/src/catch2/internal/catch_main.cpp, branch feature/cpp-tools</title>
<subtitle>Progmasoft Catch3: an independently maintained C++17 test framework with a parallel runner, property checks, snapshots and structured results.</subtitle>
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<title>Give Catch3 its own build names and headers</title>
<updated>2026-10-24T23:37:35+00:00</updated>
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<name>Leitwolf11</name>
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<published>2026-10-24T23:37:35+00:00</published>
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Catch2 compatibility means the API tests are written in: the macros, such
as TEST_CASE and REQUIRE, and the Catch:: namespace. It does not mean
Catch2's build names or header paths. find_package(Catch2) found Catch3,
and a project using both frameworks met two packages, two sets of targets,
two Catch.cmake modules and two catch2/ header trees with the same names.

Build names:
- CMake: project and package Catch3, targets Catch3::Catch3 and
  Catch3::Catch3WithMain, libraries Catch3 and Catch3Main, options
  CATCH3_*, lib/cmake/Catch3 with Catch3Config, and pkg-config catch3 and
  catch3-with-main. The version is Catch3's, 0.3.0, compatible within a
  minor version.
- The CMake scripts are Catch3.cmake (catch3_discover_tests),
  Catch3AddTests.cmake and Catch3ShardTests.cmake
  (catch3_add_sharded_tests); the helpers they define at ctest time have a
  catch3_ prefix. ParseAndAddCatchTests.cmake, deprecated upstream, is gone.
- Bazel //:catch3 and //:catch3_main, Meson catch3 and catch3-with-main
  (with override_dependency), Xmake catch3 and catch3_main, Premake Catch3
  and Catch3WithMain. Visual Studio projects get GUIDs of their own.
- The Progmasoft::Catch3 target and package are gone: property testing
  and snapshots are part of Catch3::Catch3. Their sources now build with
  the library's warning flags, so property failures are built field by
  field (no missing initializers) and the default property name is a
  thread-local pointer to the name its scope owns (no global destructor).

Headers: the engine moved from src/catch2 to src/Progmasoft/Catch3 with
Progmasoft names, so &lt;catch2/catch_test_macros.hpp&gt; is
&lt;Progmasoft/Catch3/TestMacros.hpp&gt;, &lt;catch2/matchers/catch_matchers_string.hpp&gt;
is &lt;Progmasoft/Catch3/Matchers/String.hpp&gt;, and interface headers are named
after their interface, such as Interfaces/IConfig.hpp. Include guards
became #pragma once. The installed headers go to include/Progmasoft.
src/Progmasoft/Context.cpp is StrategyContext.cpp, so no two sources share
a file name.

tools/scripts/upstreamFiles.txt lists the files that come from Catch2.
The license check expects BSL-1.0 on them and Progmasoft's header on the
rest of src/Progmasoft; the convenience-header check, the amalgamation
script and the surrogate tests take the engine's headers from it. The
amalgamated files are regenerated. The header-guard workflow checks for
#pragma once instead of checkguard.

Documents, the README and the release notes describe the new names.
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Catch2 compatibility means the API tests are written in: the macros, such
as TEST_CASE and REQUIRE, and the Catch:: namespace. It does not mean
Catch2's build names or header paths. find_package(Catch2) found Catch3,
and a project using both frameworks met two packages, two sets of targets,
two Catch.cmake modules and two catch2/ header trees with the same names.

Build names:
- CMake: project and package Catch3, targets Catch3::Catch3 and
  Catch3::Catch3WithMain, libraries Catch3 and Catch3Main, options
  CATCH3_*, lib/cmake/Catch3 with Catch3Config, and pkg-config catch3 and
  catch3-with-main. The version is Catch3's, 0.3.0, compatible within a
  minor version.
- The CMake scripts are Catch3.cmake (catch3_discover_tests),
  Catch3AddTests.cmake and Catch3ShardTests.cmake
  (catch3_add_sharded_tests); the helpers they define at ctest time have a
  catch3_ prefix. ParseAndAddCatchTests.cmake, deprecated upstream, is gone.
- Bazel //:catch3 and //:catch3_main, Meson catch3 and catch3-with-main
  (with override_dependency), Xmake catch3 and catch3_main, Premake Catch3
  and Catch3WithMain. Visual Studio projects get GUIDs of their own.
- The Progmasoft::Catch3 target and package are gone: property testing
  and snapshots are part of Catch3::Catch3. Their sources now build with
  the library's warning flags, so property failures are built field by
  field (no missing initializers) and the default property name is a
  thread-local pointer to the name its scope owns (no global destructor).

Headers: the engine moved from src/catch2 to src/Progmasoft/Catch3 with
Progmasoft names, so &lt;catch2/catch_test_macros.hpp&gt; is
&lt;Progmasoft/Catch3/TestMacros.hpp&gt;, &lt;catch2/matchers/catch_matchers_string.hpp&gt;
is &lt;Progmasoft/Catch3/Matchers/String.hpp&gt;, and interface headers are named
after their interface, such as Interfaces/IConfig.hpp. Include guards
became #pragma once. The installed headers go to include/Progmasoft.
src/Progmasoft/Context.cpp is StrategyContext.cpp, so no two sources share
a file name.

tools/scripts/upstreamFiles.txt lists the files that come from Catch2.
The license check expects BSL-1.0 on them and Progmasoft's header on the
rest of src/Progmasoft; the convenience-header check, the amalgamation
script and the surrogate tests take the engine's headers from it. The
amalgamated files are regenerated. The header-guard workflow checks for
#pragma once instead of checkguard.

Documents, the README and the release notes describe the new names.
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<entry>
<title>Constify various autoregistry globals to avoid clang-tidy complaints</title>
<updated>2025-07-15T13:23:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2025-07-15T12:42:18+00:00</published>
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Closes #2582
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Closes #2582
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<entry>
<title>Fix references to license file</title>
<updated>2022-10-28T09:30:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lars Toenning</name>
</author>
<published>2022-10-28T09:22:53+00:00</published>
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The license file was renamed with 6a502cc2f5fedd59b3495b58708f0d6d987ed9e1
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The license file was renamed with 6a502cc2f5fedd59b3495b58708f0d6d987ed9e1
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<entry>
<title>Add -Wmissing-variable-declarations to common warnings</title>
<updated>2022-05-03T11:54:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-02T10:51:46+00:00</published>
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<title>Let users of amalgamated distribution override the default main</title>
<updated>2021-12-02T12:49:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2021-12-02T12:49:16+00:00</published>
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Closes #2324
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Closes #2324
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<entry>
<title>Force __cdecl calling convention for wmain</title>
<updated>2021-08-26T21:13:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2021-08-26T21:13:27+00:00</published>
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Fixes #2219
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Fixes #2219
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<entry>
<title>Split CATCH_CONFIG_WCHAR into its own header</title>
<updated>2020-12-28T19:51:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2020-12-28T19:29:05+00:00</published>
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Part of #2041
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Part of #2041
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<title>Add standardized copyright notice + SPDX identifier to source files</title>
<updated>2020-08-30T13:43:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2020-08-30T13:43:45+00:00</published>
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This should also be done for test files, but that has lower priority.
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This should also be done for test files, but that has lower priority.
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<title>Remove the rest of old-style copyright headers</title>
<updated>2020-08-30T12:45:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2020-08-30T12:41:39+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Remove catch_default_main.hpp</title>
<updated>2020-05-09T16:00:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2020-05-07T14:24:05+00:00</published>
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There are two reasons for this:

1) It is highly unlikely that someone has use for this header,
which has no customization points and only provides simplest
possible main, and cannot link the static library which also
provides a default main implementation.
2) It being a header was causing extra complications with
the convenience headers, and our checking script. This would either
require special handling in the checking script, or would break user's
of the main convenience header.

All in all, it is simpler and better in the long term to remove it,
than to fix its problems.
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There are two reasons for this:

1) It is highly unlikely that someone has use for this header,
which has no customization points and only provides simplest
possible main, and cannot link the static library which also
provides a default main implementation.
2) It being a header was causing extra complications with
the convenience headers, and our checking script. This would either
require special handling in the checking script, or would break user's
of the main convenience header.

All in all, it is simpler and better in the long term to remove it,
than to fix its problems.
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