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Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] Adding regression tests for mingw(-64)/gcc and clang on Windows
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-12 00:47:37
On 8/11/2015 9:40 PM, Tom Kent wrote:
> Can you document it somewhere? I'd be interested in adding clang/gcc on
> mingw runs to the ones I do on windows, but I had never had much luck
> getting them up and running.
I thought I had figured it out but it is still not working when trying
to run the regression tests. I am getting messages as if the particular
version of mingw-64/gcc used in a regression test is not in my path when
some executable is being run or tested ( so and so mingw-64/gcc DLL can
not be found ).
Yet when I manually test out libraries in the latest boost trunk
everything is fine. I can see when I run tests that Boost build is
prepending the path to the mingw-64/gcc version I am using to the
Windows PATH so that when the test is run, everything is found.
Soemhow the regression tests are not doing the same thing in running the
tests that I do manually to test any particular library. I will be
trying to find out what that is.
>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]
> <mailto:eldiener_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>
> On 8/11/2015 4:38 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
>
> For a long time now we have had no regression tests for mingw/gcc or
> clang targeting gcc on Windows. The only regression tests for
> Windows
> are for various releases of VC++.
>
> I have limited resources but I have a laptop usually sitting idle,
> except for occasional travel where I take it with me, and I am
> set up to
> run tests on that machine for mingw/gcc and clang on Windows.
>
> However mingw/gcc and clang have limitations when running tests
> in that,
> both relying on various mingw/gcc implementations, the path to the
> implementation must be added at the beginning of the PATH before
> running
> any of the tests. I have already argued with the mingw-64 people
> about
> this necessity but they are adamant that this should be the case
> even
> just to compile/link properly ( and have setup their directory
> structure
> to enforce it ), and I don't want to waste my breath further
> with them.
>
> Currently I have a batch file that does that for me when running
> tests
> for any particular library, but I don't know how that can be
> achieved
> when running the regression tests unless possibly I run
> regression tests
> for only a single toolset at a time, and manipulate the PATH
> accodingly.
> But that is really time consuming since evidently all of Boost
> must be
> downloaded to the run directory each time. Is there an easy
> solution to
> this or do I have to look at run.py and try modify it
> accordingly ( I
> know Python well ) ?
>
>
> I figured out what my problem was running multiple tests, and how to
> achieve regression testing with clang and gcc on Windows.
>
>
>
> Also I notice on the Boost web site regression test page (
> http://www.boost.org/development/running_regression_tests.html )
> that
> the options of the regression tests are somewhat documented but
> none of
> the commands are documented. Is there further documentation
> about the
> regression test commands anywhere ?