Introduction

What is CST about?

CSkyTester, or CST for short, is a flexible test suite for C projects. It allows you to create tests within seconds and runs them in milliseconds.

CST has been designed with performance and ease of use in mind, and while it offers built-in tools like crash detection, it is by no means a replacement to other tools such as valgrind or ASan. CST's goal is to provide tools to quickly test your project without any dependencies.

CST complies with the GNU C99 standard (-std=gnu99), meaning it is based on ISO C99 with GCC extensions and the GNU libc (glibc). It requires only a C compiler such as GCC or Clang, and no external dependencies.

Installing CST

CST provides an official Makefile to install it as a system library. You just have to clone the repository, enter the cloned directory, and run:

sudo make install

Root privileges are required because CST installs its libraries under /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include

That’s it. CST will be available system-wide and ready to link with -lcst.

Of course, you can just run make. This will generate the libcst.a and libcst.so files so you can link them manually if you prefer not to (Or don’t have permission to) perform a system-wide installation.

An alternative option to libraries is to add all .c files inside CST’s src/ directory. This approach is described in detail here, as it is technically not an installation.

Uninstalling

If for whatever reason you want to uninstall CST, you can run sudo make uninstall to remove the system-wide installation of CST, or make clean to remove all build artifacts.