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

[Nikolay Sivov]

On 30.11.2015 21:03, Bruno Jesus wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:17 AM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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/
> Thanks for all answers, I installed OpenWatcom and was able to produce
> the test I need and it works in Windows and not in Wine so the problem
> was confirmed by tests (bug
> https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9919).
>
> I had a small problem tough, in the compiled version of the program
> printf works in wine but does not in Windows (no, not a buffering
> problem, fflush does not help). In Windows not a single line is
> printed to the console, maybe that is correct, I don't know so I
> changed to output a text file instead.
Even if it's not possible for some reason, you can always make it write 
to a file directly.
>
> I tried compiling the win16 tests but there were too many compilation
> errors, I'm probably doing something wrong. I'll be back to that in
> some days.
>
> The question that remains, how to submit a patch that was tested with
> an external (not wine test suite) program? (test attached)
Currently the only way is to submit without it, and mention it in a 
mail. Hopefully in the future tests could be kept in similar separate 
repository,
and built regularly.