On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> 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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