Make a 16-bit test in wine for krnl386.exe16

[Austin English]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/2015 03:47 AM, Bruno Jesus wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 29.11.2015 20:30, Bruno Jesus wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all, I'm trying to create tests for GetPrivateProfileString16 but
>>>> it is not working as expected because the test is calling the kernel32
>>>> version of the function instead of the krnl386.exe16.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to make a test that compiles and runs against krnl386
>>>> instead of kernel32?
>>>>
>>>> I tried a few different things and the attached patch is the last
>>>> attempt (the tests are wrong but that is not the point yet).
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think the main problem is to actually be able to build NE binaries,
>>> for that you'll need tools that support this, for example openwatcom C
>>> compiler, or some old enough Visual C++, maybe version 5 or 4.
>>
>> So basically it is not possible to integrate such tests in wine as a
>> standard test like any other.
> Afair Dan Kegel worked on that back in the days. Might be still
> available somewhere on the net. The easiest would be to take that and
> make it a separate project aka keep it out of tree. Providing a prebuilt
> winetest16.exe would make it easy for people to test without having to
> go through the pain of setting the build environment up.
>
> bye
>         michael

It's at https://code.google.com/archive/p/win16test/downloads

The initial problem IIRC was OpenWatcom's license, which isn't
acceptable to Debian/Fedora/et al:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcom_C/C%2B%2B_compiler#License

Dan speculated that AJ wouldn't add a patch that used OpenWatcom since
it's not packaged in the major distributions, but AFAIK he never
actually asked :). Perhaps an optional build of win16 tests if it's
installed would be acceptable.

I've also exported a copy to my Github account:
https://github.com/austin987/win16test/

-- 
-Austin