Catch2: Cannot compile for UWP (Universal Windows Platform)

Description

I am porting an existing project that makes use of Catch to UWP. When compiling I get the following errors (amongst others):

error C3861: 'AddVectoredExceptionHandler': identifier not found
error C3861: 'SetThreadStackGuarantee': identifier not found
error C3861: 'RemoveVectoredExceptionHandler': identifier not found
error C3861: 'SetThreadStackGuarantee': identifier not found
error C3861: 'GetStdHandle': identifier not found
error C2065: 'CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO': undeclared identifier

It would seem that UWP does not supply these classes.

Steps to reproduce

Using VS2017 create a new UWP App File -> New Project -> Installed -> Visual C++ -> Windows Universal ->DirectX 11 App (Universal Windows)
Add catch.hpp to the project
Include the header

#define CATCH_CONFIG_RUNNER
#include "catch.hpp"

Compile

Extra information

Catch version: v1.9.6 also tried v2.0.0-develop.3

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 19 (15 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Do not use SEH and console api under UWP Fixes #1020 — committed to catchorg/Catch2 by horenmar 7 years ago
Workaround for stitching issue in #1020 Closes #1020 — committed to catchorg/Catch2 by horenmar 7 years ago

Most upvoted comments

@michaelcowan You could argue that the inconsistency stems from inconsistent behaviour between XCode and Visual Studio. By default, Catch writes its output to stdout. UWP apps do not show stdout anywhere, but it can be redirected by freopen and the like. It just so happens that XCode redirects stdout to its debug output on its own, while VS doesn’t.

However, as you found out, you can ask Catch to redirect the output to a file (including a special file, %debug). Under everything that is not Visual Studio, the %debug file just writes to stdout. For Visual Studio, we use OutputDebugStringA, which does place the output to its debug output.

horenmar on Oct 3, 2017

This should be fixed in Catch 2

horenmar on Sep 12, 2017