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Re: running tests windows, without shell

From: Vincent Torri <vincent.torri_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:29:43 +0100

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Dec 2010, Pierre Joye wrote:
>
> While working on some windows specific patches, I was trying to run the
>> tests suite without using msys shell (or mingw or whatever else but VC+SDK)
>> but it is not possible as far as I can see. Has anyone worked on running the
>> tests suite on windows without using msys or previously built using mingw on
>> windows?
>>
>
> No, it has not been made to happen by anyone to my knowledge. I'm sure
> there's a lot to do to make it better on Windows but it really takes for
> someone familiar with that platform to work on it. Which excludes me.
>
>
> There are a lot of posix related dependencies in the tests script but I
>> wonder if it would be welcome or possible to add the necessary pieces to
>> allow the tests to be executed without posix deps.
>>
>
> I would love to have the tests possible to run on "plain" Windows as well,
> as I'm sure it'll give us better test coverage and thus result in a better
> tested product and eventually higher quality code for everyone!
>

I worked on a very small library that try to implement some missing (usually
POSIX) functions on Windows (for the libraries I am maintaining). I can look
at these tests. Just tell me how to compile curl with cl.exe

Vincent Torri

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