Hi, On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:58:42AM +0300, Samuli Seppänen wrote: > I stand corrected. However, cross-building is not a replacement for > building on the actual OS. > > Do cross-builds generally catch useful issues, or do they tend to catch > issues related to the cross-building environment itself?
The mingw builds that you run have caught quite a few commits with
unexpected side effects (header files not right for windows, and such
stuff) - so they are definitely useful.
Occasionaly, they catch "building environment bugs", which is annoying,
but easier than setting up windows build environments...
What is missing with the cross-builds is to be able to *run* the binary
to do full-binary tests (and, obviously, unit tests also do not work with
cross-built stuff). So it's not as good as automated local builds with
test suite, but until we can have that for windows, I'm happy with mingw
cross-builds and automatically uploaded snapshots for all commits :-)
gert
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