Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-18 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 14:11 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: Can't remember any details, but I think I did have a real problem with it before I discovered --disable-linkoo sometime last year Hey ho :-) and recently I remote-debugged something with somebody, and we came to the

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-18 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 11:06 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote: And of course you need to source 'ooenv' to get STAR_RESOURCEPATH set [ though strangely things seem to work without that these days ]. soffice script will source ooenv if it finds it, if you mean that. C.

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-12 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2012-04-11 18:19, Stephan Bergmann wrote: My understanding is that we use classic paths (not starting with \\?) whenever they are short enough, anyway. So the problem cannot be solved with an #if, but (short of abandoning berkeleydb) needs to be worked around by making sure the LO

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-12 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 04/12/2012 10:00 AM, Noel Grandin wrote: On 2012-04-11 18:19, Stephan Bergmann wrote: My understanding is that we use classic paths (not starting with \\?) whenever they are short enough, anyway. So the problem cannot be solved with an #if, but (short of abandoning berkeleydb) needs to be

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-12 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 18:19 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: So the problem cannot be solved with an #if, but (short of abandoning berkeleydb) needs to be worked around by making sure the LO installation is in a location with a short path (so that the paths of any files within the

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-12 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 17:34 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: (And even on Linux, linkoo does not really work, and I'm happy to avoid it via --disable-linkoo. But I do understand that this is not very newbee friendly.) Oh !? we should fix that, is there a bug ? it'd prolly be an

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-12 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 04/12/2012 11:40 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 17:34 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: (And even on Linux, linkoo does not really work, and I'm happy to avoid it via --disable-linkoo. But I do understand that this is not very newbee friendly.) But - overall it does a

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-11 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 04/10/2012 07:06 PM, Michael Stahl wrote: is this ooinstall thing supposed to work on Windows at all? AFAIK it symlinks stuff left and right, and running the result of that can hardly work as native Win32 program? IIUC, it should only use symlinks if used in combination with (default)

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-11 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2012-04-11 08:48, Stephan Bergmann wrote: the bigger problem is that this project doesn't seem to have any Windows developers :) Ack. It's kind of catch-22. I develop on Windows, but I do my LibreOffice work on Ubuntu running inside a VMWare image, simply because the Windows build

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-11 Thread Lubos Lunak
On Wednesday 11 of April 2012, Stephan Bergmann wrote: On 04/10/2012 07:06 PM, Michael Stahl wrote: is this ooinstall thing supposed to work on Windows at all? AFAIK it symlinks stuff left and right, and running the result of that can hardly work as native Win32 program? IIUC, it should

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-11 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 14:17 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote: And, BTW, I think linkoo could be modified for Windows, so that it does not create symlinks, but instead it copies a file if the one in solver/ is newer. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just built into a output install tree in the first

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-11 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hello, On 10/04/12 20:02, Tor Lillqvist wrote: Presumably not. The way I iterate edit-compile-test on Windows (when I do it, which is not often lately) is to have a normal installation (in a virtual machine), i.e. from an installer, and then manually replace the DLL(s) I am debugging... and

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-11 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 04/11/2012 02:17 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote: On Wednesday 11 of April 2012, Stephan Bergmann wrote: However, I guess the mechanisms to create a LO installation against which to run the tests (which was always handled slightly differently on Windows, to avoid problems with long pathnames) has been

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-11 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 04/11/2012 02:24 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 14:17 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote: And, BTW, I think linkoo could be modified for Windows, so that it does not create symlinks, but instead it copies a file if the one in solver/ is newer. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-11 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2012-04-11 17:31, Stephan Bergmann wrote: ooinstall needs to be fixed to work on Windows (my understanding is that it does not). Second, as long as long pathnames on Windows are still an issue (and my understanding is that they are, at least for our interaction with the berkeleydb

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-11 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 04/11/2012 05:43 PM, Noel Grandin wrote: On 2012-04-11 17:31, Stephan Bergmann wrote: ooinstall needs to be fixed to work on Windows (my understanding is that it does not). Second, as long as long pathnames on Windows are still an issue (and my understanding is that they are, at least for

'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-10 Thread Lubos Lunak
Hello, I've tried to do %subj% and it doesn't work for me, neither with my test build [1] nor with a tinderbox where I tried to enable it [2]. Given that this is the primary user platform, I'm rather surprised this doesn't work. Is that just some temporary breakage, or is there a bigger

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-10 Thread Michael Stahl
On 10/04/12 18:50, Lubos Lunak wrote: Hello, I've tried to do %subj% and it doesn't work for me, neither with my test build [1] nor with a tinderbox where I tried to enable it [2]. Given that this is the primary user platform, I'm rather surprised this doesn't work. Is that just some

Re: 'make check' with Windows/MSVC build?

2012-04-10 Thread Tor Lillqvist
is this ooinstall thing supposed to work on Windows at all? Presumably not. The way I iterate edit-compile-test on Windows (when I do it, which is not often lately) is to have a normal installation (in a virtual machine), i.e. from an installer, and then manually replace the DLL(s) I am