/me jumps in on this thread for a sec
--- Patrik Stridvall ps@leissner.se wrote:
But beyond that, we can *today* compile Wine with Mingw as PE. So what we need is a checkspec make target which would run
your script,
compile Wine as PE, extract what needs extracting from there, and compare results. This does not need to happen all the time, only from time to time by some people that (1) have Mingw installed, and (2) care to do it :).
True. However I still a little worried about the "stabillity" of the solution.
Why? This is as good of a verification method (no, even better) than what we have today.
Sure, but I have written the Perl code I know how ad hoc it is. It works under reasonable assumptions however beyond that...
But I'm not really against it, I'm just pointing out potential problems...
I thought the WINE tree and regression suite would try and move away from a perl dependancy? How is all of this going to effect building on Windows/ReactOS with Mingw? I have had a bitch of a time getting Mingw+MSYS+Perl working and would hate to see it become a bigger requirement. If -mno-cygwin worked right I dont guess it would be as big of a deal because then we could still build WINE-Mingw under cyg but atm some import is still hosing things up and forcing importation of cygwin1.dll so the recommended setup is just Mingw+MSYS.
Note: even using perl on cygwin is still borked atm for the regression suite and I havent even tried winapi_check. another option may be to look at active perl for windows but I really dont like that idea.
Thanks Steven
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