Building Wine conformance tests on Windows

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On 05/02/2014 07:44 PM, Henri Verbeet wrote:
> On 2 May 2014 19:34, Albert Szilvasy <albert.szilvasy at autodesk.com> wrote:
>> This really makes me wonder if building these tests on Windows is at all viable. It seems that people use some other method to build this stuff. I've checked winetest64.exe from http://test.winehq.org/data/ and it definitely wasn't built with the Microsoft toolset. I think I'll move on and try to cross compile on Linux, I suspect that's the beaten path.
>>
> If you only care about building the tests to run them on Windows (as
> opposed to building the tests on Windows specifically), I think "make
> crosstest" is the easiest way. You may have to install mingw-w64 for
> that to work.
In that case there is even an easier solution:
Just throw the patch at the WineTestBot https://testbot.winehq.org/
You can then download the binary from there in addition to have the
testbot run it on its Windows VMs.

bye
	michael