[1/2] Extend the testing framework to include IDL files and RPC clients (take 2)

[Robert Shearman]

Dan Hipschman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:41:16AM +0200, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>   
>> That's very ugly; you shouldn't need any of that stuff, especially not
>> a separate makefile. You should put everything in the same exe, and
>> differentiate server and client through command line arguments, the
>> way the process test does it.
>>     
>
> Well, I tried to make it as pretty as possible.  The problem is that the
> client and server code won't link together.  For each function, there's
> the implementation and the stub, both with the same name.  To get both
> into the same executable, I'd have to do some sort of renaming hack,
> either with the preprocessor or something like sed.  The reason I like
> two makefiles better is that messing with the output of widl weakens the
> test.  I can take a second look at that approach, though, or look for an
> entirely different way if you really hate having two makefiles/exes.
>   

midl has an option to add a prefix to the server functions so that you 
can compile server & client code in the same exe/dll. It might be a good 
idea to add the equivalent functionality to widl for this reason.

-- 
Rob Shearman