Implementing Wine testing framework with Perl

[Andriy Palamarchuk]

I execised with winetest to find more information
about using Perl as a base for Wine testing framework.

My findings so far:
I built winetest without problems. Provided sample
test script worked. 

The next my step would be to translate my own unit
tests to Perl. My tests extensively use number
constants, declared in C header file with defines and
C structures.

I worked with Perl before, but never created Perl
extensions. After researching I did not find reliable
way to automatically import C structures to Perl.

Perl distribution provides some tools, but AFAICS the
tools have limited possibilities and are not suitable
for fully automatic conversion (see man pages for
perlxs, perlxstut, h2xs, xsubpp). h2xs tool imported
defines fine. I'm not sure how it handled functions.
It does not do complete parsing of headers and files,
generated files need manual editing.

Another option - SWIG (www.swig.org). Can generate
bindings for a few scripting languages directly from C
sources "provided they are sufficiently clean" (.h?).
I do not assume yet it can make sense from our
sources.

Are there Perl experts out there who knows how to
handle this issue?

Can we use other approach if automatic code generation
is not possible?
E.g. we can manually create binding code for used
structures. C compiler is needed to create or change
the bindings.

Please, let me know if I missed something.

Thanks,
Andriy Palamarchuk


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