More dumb regression questions

[Geoffrey Hausheer]

How do I run a wine perl regression test in Windows?

I thought the entire point was to make it so you don't
need a c-compiler, yet I can't seem to get the tests to 
run without the winetest application (which I've been 
unable to build on windows so far).  Is it planned that 
this executable be distributed with wine, or am I missing 
something else?

Ideally, I'd like to be able to get just the tests and 
required apps through cvs (or even a .zip file), and run 
them.  If this is possible today, it isn't obvious (to 
me) how to do it.

Sorry if this is documented somewhere, but I checked 
Francois' presentation, and the huge thread in January, 
and didn't find anything about it.
If you want to convince people to help write tests, it'd 
sure be nice if it was easy to find information about how 
to do it :)

.Geoff

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[Francois Gouget]

On 23 Mar 2002, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> How do I run a wine perl regression test in Windows?

Well, that's part of the unfinished items. Currently you have to:
 * install Perl on Windows
   The best seems to be to get Perl from source and compile it, e.g.
with Visual C++.
 * get the whole Wine tree to Windows
 * tweak programs/winetest/Makefile.win32 to adapt to the directory
where you have perl installed. Typically just replace
   PERLDIR = c:\perl\5.6.0\lib\MSWin32-x86\CORE
   XSUBPPDIR = c:\perl\5.6.0\lib\ExtUtils
   with
   PERLDIR = c:\perl\5.6.1\lib\MSWin32-x86\CORE
   XSUBPPDIR = c:\perl\5.6.1\lib\ExtUtils
 * run tests manually by invoking programs/winetest/runtests with the
right options.
> I thought the entire point was to make it so you don't
> need a c-compiler, yet I can't seem to get the tests to
> run without the winetest application (which I've been
> unable to build on windows so far).  Is it planned that
> this executable be distributed with wine, or am I missing
> something else?

Is it planned, yes. Is it done? No, not yet :-(
> Ideally, I'd like to be able to get just the tests and
> required apps through cvs (or even a .zip file), and run
> them.  If this is possible today, it isn't obvious (to
> me) how to do it.

Yes, that's the plan: regularly generate a zip file to put on WineHQ,
so that people can just grab the zip file and run some batch script to
invoke all the tests.

Perl tests aside, I have started working on a perl script that would
generate Makefiles suitable for running the C tests on Windows using
Visual C++. But it's not finished yet and I had to stop working on it
for a while. I attached it to this email so that someone can pick it up.
Please let me know if you do.
> Sorry if this is documented somewhere, but I checked
> Francois' presentation, and the huge thread in January,
> and didn't find anything about it.

That's another item: my presentation should be converted and
integrated into the Wine Developper's Guide. That's the right place for
such documentation.

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