MinGW cross compilation fails for d3dx9_36/tests

[James Hawkins]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd at googlemail.com> wrote:
>  >  I would have expected that when building for mingw, Wine would use the
>  >  Wine headers and libraries. Otherwise, as mentioned above, if someone
>  >  adds tests that rely on items that are not in the mingw headers then
>  >  the tests will not be built for the conformance tests, as has been
>  >  seen recently. Also, what happens with the widl generated headers?
>
>  We have always depended on the w32api package for the tests and
>  programs partly to make sure our own code is sane by having another
>  coverage point like building with the MSVC headers when compiling on
>  MSVC. Dmitry and I have disagreed with this for years though because
>  the mingw w32api maintainers can be a real PITA about getting patches
>  in and also because of the breakages that result when something is
>  missing like you mention. Switching to a using the wine headers and
>  import libs everywhere is long overdue and welcome!
>

What is the process for making this switch?  Do we need to contact
Paul Millar?  The lack of a new winetest is putting a hamper on our
efforts to fix up the tests in Windows.

-- 
James Hawkins