How to generate mock automatically in google mock for c

Question

I know there is a tool called gmock_gen.py in google mock that can be used to automatically generate mocks for c++ classes. Is there any similar tool that can generate mock for c functions, given a c source file, in which I want to mock those functions?

The background for my question:

I have lots of legacy c code (not c++) that need to be unit tested by google test and google mock. To test a function, I have to mock hundreds of functions that are called by some functions in the same c source file, even though they are not called by the function under unit test, otherwise, there will be "undefined reference" problems when linking.

Answer 1

Maybe you could take a look at this github repo : https://github.com/hjagodzinski/C-Mock

From the doc :

C Mock is Google Mock extension allowing for mocking functions.

This is not either a patch to nor fork of Google Mock. This is just a set of headers providing a way of using tools for mock methods with mock functions in tests.

C Mock is not intended to promote bad design. Its goal is to help people test their code.