Commit 3b659d16 authored by Michael Stefaniuc's avatar Michael Stefaniuc Committed by Alexandre Julliard

Update doc about cross-compiling of the Wine tests.

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<sect1 id="testing-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
With more The Windows API follows no standard, it is itself a defacto
With more The Windows API follows no standard, it is itself a de facto
standard, and deviations from that standard, even small ones, often
cause applications to crash or misbehave in some way. Furthermore
a conformance test suite is the most accurate (if not necessarily
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</sect1>
<sect1 id="cross-compiling-tests">
<title>Cross-compiling the tests with MinGW</title>
<sect2>
<title>Setup of the MinGW cross-compiling environment</title>
<para>
The most daunting problem while trying to cross-compile the Wine
tests is the setup of the MinGW cross-compiling environment. Here
are some instructions for different Linux distributions and *BSD
systems to help with this problem.
</para>
<sect3>
<title>Debian GNU/Linux</title>
<para>
On Debian all you need to do is type <command>apt-get install
mingw32</>.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Red Hat Linux like rpm systems</title>
<para>
This includes Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Mandrake,
most probably SuSE Linux too, etc. But this list isn't exhaustive;
the following steps should probably work on any rpm based system.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Download the mingw-binutils and mingw-gcc srpm's from
<ulink url="http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/SRPMS/">
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/SRPMS/</ulink>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Download the mingw srpm from
<ulink url="http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/noarch/SRPMS/">
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/noarch/SRPMS/</ulink>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Build the mingw and mingw-binutils rpm's (<command>rpmbuild
--rebuild $SRPM</>) and install them.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
After the above step you can build the mingw-gcc rpm too.
Install it.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>*BSD</title>
<para>
The *BSD systems have in their ports collection a port for the
MinGW cross-compiling environment. Please see the documentation
of your system about how to build and install a port.
</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Compiling the tests</title>
<para>
Having the cross-compiling environment set up the generation of the
Windows executables is easy by using the Wine build system.
</para>
<para>
If you had already run <command>configure</>, then delete
<filename>config.cache</> and re-run <command>configure</>.
You can then run <command>make crosstest</>. To sum up:
<screen>
<prompt>$ </><userinput>rm config.cache</>
<prompt>$ </><userinput>./configure</>
<prompt>$ </><userinput>make crosstest</>
</screen>
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="testing-windows">
<title>Building and running the tests on Windows</title>
<sect2>
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result of your inquiry.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Cross compiling with MinGW on Linux</title>
<para>
Here is how to generate Windows executables for the tests straight
from the comfort of Linux.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
First you need to get the MinGW cross-compiler. On Debian all
you need to do is type <command>apt-get install mingw32</>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
If you had already run <command>configure</>, then delete
<filename>config.cache</> and re-run <command>configure</>.
You can then run <command>make crosstest</>. To sum up:
<screen>
<prompt>$ </><userinput>rm config.cache</>
<prompt>$ </><userinput>./configure</>
<prompt>$ </><userinput>make crosstest</>
</screen>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
If you get an error when compiling <filename>winsock.h</> then
you probably need to apply the following patch:
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2002/12/0157.html">http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2002/12/0157.html</>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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