On 5/31/19 4:17 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org wrote:
Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@baikal.ru writes:
Huw Davies huw@codeweavers.com wrote:
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:31:10AM +0200, Rémi Bernon wrote:
Is there a particular reason the tested functions are dynamically loaded in some test executables?
The typical reason would be that the functions are not available on all of the Windows versions that we test.
As we retire testing on older Windows versions this can leave us dynamically loading functions that we need not any more.
Another reason is that sometimes PSDK doesn't have an appropriate import library. Alphough it tends to get added in newer PSDK versions, but that's not a good reason to break compilation with older PSDK versions by removing dynamic API loading (some people abuse this very badly recently).
It's not unreasonable to require a recent PSDK, if that makes the code simpler.
Some of my test WMs running Widows XP, some Windows 7, it's pretty questionable to require installing a Windows 10 SDK there (if it will ever install under XP). On the other hand a test compiled under Windows 7 won't run under XP. Personally, I find testing under XP and Windows 7 very valueable, please don't ruin that ability.
mingw-w64 works quite well for compiling tests to run under XP.