How is the testsuite built for windows

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get the tests to run in windows, but I'm not sure how to build
them. Any attempt to do mingw cross compiling fails badly.

Who managed to compile all wine tests for windows, and how is it done?

Cheers,
Maarten.

[Paul Vriens]

Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get the tests to run in windows, but I'm not sure how to build
> them. Any attempt to do mingw cross compiling fails badly.
>
> Who managed to compile all wine tests for windows, and how is it done?
>
> Cheers,
> Maarten.

Hi Maarten,

I'm doing this all the time. Before I sent a patch I usually have it cross 
compiled and tested on different flavors of Windows.

I'm running Fedora 8 and I'm using the RPM's provided via 
http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw/packages.

Mingw has to be very-up-to-date to be able to cross compile all tests. With the 
latest RPM's I can still cross compile all tests.

Or are you talking about the full winetest.exe?

[Paul Millar]

Hi Maarten,

On Wednesday 13 February 2008 00:51:11 Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Who managed to compile all wine tests for windows, and how is it done?

Once a day, quisquiliae head-node (attempt to) build winetest.exe (and also 
the other Wine .exe and .dll files).  Some details about this are available 
here:
    http://quisquiliae.physics.gla.ac.uk/cross/

The cron script builds winetest.exe and checks whether it has changed since 
last time.  If so, registers the new build.
(This is a slight over-simplification.)

There are some notes on how to build a Windows PE cross-compiler available 
from here:
    http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/~paulm/Cross/

There is also a script that automates building the cross-compiler.  Wine is 
written exclusively in C, so by default, only the C frontend is built.  The 
script should support building other language frontends, but this hasn't been 
tested much.

This page also includes a set of patches for MinGW's Win32API package to allow 
MinGW to compile winetest.exe.  This patch-set is almost exclusively the work 
of others: Stefan Leichter featuring most prominently (many thanks!)

Hans Leidekker maintains a set of RPMs that should provide identical coverage 
of Win32API as Stefan, Hans, myself and others share the set of patches.  
Hans' RPMs are available from:

http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw/

Cheers,

Paul.