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<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>
<author>
<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>Use locale-independent toLower</title>
<updated>2026-09-11T09:15:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-09-06T21:23:23+00:00</published>
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We generally do not even try to pretend to support more than plain ASCII,
because doing unicode in old C++ standards is a pain and a half. For
`toLower`, we used to wrap `std::tolower` with multiple casts to avoid UB,
but calling into it is relatively slow, and it tries to handle different
locales, which could cause unexpected results.

In addition, the new implementation is significantly faster, which helps
speed up the initial process bring up (as comparing tags, and thus test
cases is now faster).
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We generally do not even try to pretend to support more than plain ASCII,
because doing unicode in old C++ standards is a pain and a half. For
`toLower`, we used to wrap `std::tolower` with multiple casts to avoid UB,
but calling into it is relatively slow, and it tries to handle different
locales, which could cause unexpected results.

In addition, the new implementation is significantly faster, which helps
speed up the initial process bring up (as comparing tags, and thus test
cases is now faster).
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<entry>
<title>Add lifetime annotations to more places using StringRef</title>
<updated>2025-10-04T14:38:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2025-10-04T14:38:07+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Fix build with GCC 13 (add missing &lt;cstdint&gt; include)</title>
<updated>2023-01-08T19:08:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam James</name>
</author>
<published>2023-01-08T02:03:32+00:00</published>
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GCC 13 (as usual for new compiler releases) shuffles around some
internal includes and so &lt;cstdint&gt; is no longer transitively included.

Explicitly include &lt;cstdint&gt; for uint64_t.

```
FAILED: src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o
/usr/lib/ccache/bin/g++-13  -I/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/.. -I/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1_build/generated-includes  -O2 -pipe
-march=native -fdiagnostics-color=always -frecord-gcc-switches -Wreturn-type -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS  -ggdb3 -fdiagnostics-color=always
-ffile-prefix-map=/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1=. -Wall -Wc++20-compat -Wcast-align -Wcatch-value -Wdeprecated -Wexceptions -Wextra -Wextra-semi -Wfloat-equal -Winit-self
-Wmisleading-indentation -Wmismatched-new-delete -Wmismatched-tags -Wmissing-braces -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wnull-dereference -Wold-style-cast -Woverloaded-virtual -Wparentheses
-Wpedantic -Wreorder -Wshadow -Wstrict-aliasing -Wsuggest-override -Wundef -Wuninitialized -Wunreachable-code -Wunused -Wunused-function -Wunused-parameter -Wvla -MD -MT
src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o -MF src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o.d -o src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o -c
/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp
In file included from /var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp:12:
/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/../catch2/internal/catch_string_manip.hpp:47:14: error: 'uint64_t' in namespace 'std' does not name a type; did you mean 'wint_t'?
   47 |         std::uint64_t m_count;
      |              ^~~~~~~~
      |              wint_t
/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/../catch2/internal/catch_string_manip.hpp:51:42: error: expected ')' before 'count'
   51 |         constexpr pluralise(std::uint64_t count, StringRef label):
      |                            ~             ^~~~~~
      |                                          )
```
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GCC 13 (as usual for new compiler releases) shuffles around some
internal includes and so &lt;cstdint&gt; is no longer transitively included.

Explicitly include &lt;cstdint&gt; for uint64_t.

```
FAILED: src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o
/usr/lib/ccache/bin/g++-13  -I/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/.. -I/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1_build/generated-includes  -O2 -pipe
-march=native -fdiagnostics-color=always -frecord-gcc-switches -Wreturn-type -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS  -ggdb3 -fdiagnostics-color=always
-ffile-prefix-map=/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1=. -Wall -Wc++20-compat -Wcast-align -Wcatch-value -Wdeprecated -Wexceptions -Wextra -Wextra-semi -Wfloat-equal -Winit-self
-Wmisleading-indentation -Wmismatched-new-delete -Wmismatched-tags -Wmissing-braces -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wnull-dereference -Wold-style-cast -Woverloaded-virtual -Wparentheses
-Wpedantic -Wreorder -Wshadow -Wstrict-aliasing -Wsuggest-override -Wundef -Wuninitialized -Wunreachable-code -Wunused -Wunused-function -Wunused-parameter -Wvla -MD -MT
src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o -MF src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o.d -o src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o -c
/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp
In file included from /var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp:12:
/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/../catch2/internal/catch_string_manip.hpp:47:14: error: 'uint64_t' in namespace 'std' does not name a type; did you mean 'wint_t'?
   47 |         std::uint64_t m_count;
      |              ^~~~~~~~
      |              wint_t
/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/../catch2/internal/catch_string_manip.hpp:51:42: error: expected ')' before 'count'
   51 |         constexpr pluralise(std::uint64_t count, StringRef label):
      |                            ~             ^~~~~~
      |                                          )
```
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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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<title>Small cleanup for pluralise</title>
<updated>2022-04-11T18:37:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2022-04-11T18:37:54+00:00</published>
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<title>Counts internally use uint64_t instead of size_t</title>
<updated>2021-12-06T19:42:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2021-12-02T15:25:11+00:00</published>
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This ensures that even for 32 bit platforms, the assertion count
should not plausibly overflow.
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This ensures that even for 32 bit platforms, the assertion count
should not plausibly overflow.
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<entry>
<title>Lift toLower(char) to header</title>
<updated>2021-11-09T10:44:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2021-11-08T22:58:09+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Change startsWith(char) to take StringRef as argument</title>
<updated>2021-09-27T12:55:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2021-09-27T12:52:44+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Use StringRef in pluralise implementation</title>
<updated>2021-09-07T22:24:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2021-09-07T22:24:36+00:00</published>
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This means that it can no longer be safely made ahead of time,
but nothing in our existing code used it like that. Normally it
is constructed and used in the same expression, which is now
more efficient.
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This means that it can no longer be safely made ahead of time,
but nothing in our existing code used it like that. Normally it
is constructed and used in the same expression, which is now
more efficient.
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