Re: [Boost-testing] Testing Boost on Windows CE

From: Paolo Coletta (paolo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-03 12:39:22

(may be this is a duplicate post, but at the first attempt I discovered I
was not subscribed to this list yet)

I see this is quite an old thread, however, I just finished porting some
parts of the boost libraries (thread, serialization, filesystem, asio,
date_time, regex, and some other header only libs) to Windows CE, thus, I
would like to try to run the tests for this platform (Windows CE, ARM
processor, Compiler Visual C++ 8.0, Microsoft Windows  Mobile SDK, stlport).
There has been some progress in creating the wince.py script cited in this
thread. Or is anyone aware of some way to run the tests under WinCE?

Paolo

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:13:01 +0200, Mateusz Loskot wrote:

> Rene Rivera wrote:
>> Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>>> Stefan Slapeta wrote:
>>>> Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Do you mean space on a Windows CE device/emulator,
>>>>> for regression.py output?
>>>>>
>>>> Space for libs, executables, obj's etc.
>>>> For my tests (2 configurations) I need about 13 GB.
>>> Right. On my development machine, where Boost is
>>> compiled I have a lot of space.
>>> But only final dll/exe files will be copied to mobile device.
>> 
>> There is one problem you'll have to figure out... The regression.py 
>> automates everything, which includes compiling and running of the tests, 
>> hence why Stefan mentions the disk space issue.
> 
> Ah, that's a detail I've missed.
> Right, this may be a problem.
> 
>> In your case you are compiling the tests on one machine and running on another.
> 
> Exactly. The cycle is 1) compile 2) deply on a device 3) run
> 
>> So you need to make regression.py copy the tests binaries to the test machine and 
>> then copy back the results. Not sure how to do that though.
> 
> OK, that should be easy.
> Generally, I need to change the regression.py script to only run tests.
> 
>> Anyone know how to make regression.py do remote testing?
> 
> Remote testing for Windows CE platform would need to be based on
> platform-specific regression.py script.
> There is a dedicated API (RAPI [1]) for operating device remotely, from
> desktop.
> 
> Remote regression tests run for Windows CE may look as follows:
> 
> 1. regression_wince.py script runs on desktop machine
> 2. The script uploads Boost binaries on WinCE device(using RAPI)
> 3. Execute regression tests runner on a device (using RAPI call
> CeCreateProcess)
> 4. Download file(s) with regression tests results
> 5. Process tests results on desktop
> 6. Upload results on the Web
> 
> This scenario seems to be feasible using Python and Python port for
> Windows CE [2].
> 
> [1] RAPI
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wceappenduser5/html/wce50grfRemoteApplicationProgrammingInterfaceRAPIReference.asp
> 
> [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythonce
> 
> Cheers