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Re: Windows CE

From: Vincent Torri <vincent.torri_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:58:26 +0100

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Graeme Burton wrote:
>
> I want to test the library thoroughly to make sure it's working, and
>> running ad hoc tests isn't really going to do an acceptable job. I can see
>> that there are Perl scripts which perform unit tests; however I suspect that
>> I won't be able to get hold of a Perl interpreter for my mobile phone, much
>> less a command line to run it against. I propose to produce a C version of
>> the Perl script and use that for testing; however, as I'm new to libcurl
>> development, I'm very happy to accept all suggestions as to whether this is
>> the correct approach, and if it isn't, what approach I should take.
>>
>
> This is basically the same problem that Pierre posted about the other day:
> the curl test suite is not properly adjusted to run and work fine on
> Windows.
>
> Also, I think you should consider doing the tests host-side and not on your
> target if you can't get a perl for it. Re-implementing the tests using
> something else seems like a lot of work for very little value.
>
> In the project we do the tests on a large variety of platforms and since
> the code is pretty much the same all over, it makes it convinced that it
> works as good pretty much all over.
>

Maybe using the 'check' library ( http://check.sourceforge.net/ ). It's a C
unit testing framework. It even works on Windows (i use it in the libs i'm
maintaining)

Vincent Torri

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