Commit 8702418d authored by Francois Gouget's avatar Francois Gouget Committed by Alexandre Julliard

Update the instructions describing how to compile the conformance

tests with MSVC and the Microsoft headers.
parent 27ca26bc
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<title>With Visual C++</title>
<screen>
Visual Studio 6 users:
- MSVC headers may not work well, try with Wine headers
- Ensure that you have the "processor pack" from
<ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/ppack/default.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/ppack/default.aspx</>
as well as the latest service packs. The processor pack fixes <emphasis>"error C2520: conversion from unsigned
__int64 to double not implemented, use signed __int64"</>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
If you are using Visual Studio 6, make sure you have the
"processor pack" from
<ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/ppack/default.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/ppack/default.aspx</>.
The processor pack fixes <emphasis>"error C2520: conversion from
unsigned __int64 to double not implemented, use signed __int64"</>.
However note that the "processor pack" is incompatible with
Visual Studio 6.0 Standard Edition, and with the Visual Studio 6
Service Pack 6. If you are using Visual Studio 7 or greater you
do not need the processor pack. In either case it is recommended
to the most recent compatible Visual Studio
<ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/sp/">service pack</>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
get the Wine sources
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
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On the Windows machine, open the <filename>winetest.dsw</>
workspace. This will load each test's project. For each test there
are two configurations: one compiles the test with the Wine
headers, and the other uses the Visual C++ headers. Some tests
will compile fine with the former, but most will require the
latter.
headers, and the other uses the Microsoft headers.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
If you choose the "Win32 MSVC Headers" configuration, most of the
tests will not compile with the regular Visual Studio headers. So
to use this configuration, download and install a recent
<ulink url="http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/">Platform SDK</>
(the download requires Internet Explorer!), as well as the latest
<ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/directx.asp">DirectX SDK</>.
Then, <ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/EN-US/sdkintro/sdkintro/installing_the_platform_sdk_with_visual_studio.asp">configure Visual Studio</>
to use these SDK's headers and libraries. Alternately you could go
to the <menuchoice><guimenu>Project</> <guimenu>Settings...</></>
menu and modify the settings appropriately, but you would then
have to redo this whenever you rerun msvcmaker.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Open the <menuchoice><guimenu>Build</> <guimenu>Batch
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