[PATCH v6 1/7] ntdll/tests: Move NtAllocateVirtualMemory tests that were in kernel32

[Zebediah Figura]

On 5/31/19 4:17 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
> 
>> Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> writes:
>>
>>> Huw Davies <huw at codeweavers.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:31:10AM +0200, Rémi Bernon wrote:
>>>>> Is there a particular reason the tested functions are dynamically
>>>>> loaded in some test executables?
>>>>
>>>> The typical reason would be that the functions are not available on
>>>> all of the Windows versions that we test.
>>>>
>>>> As we retire testing on older Windows versions this can leave us
>>>> dynamically loading functions that we need not any more.
>>>
>>> Another reason is that sometimes PSDK doesn't have an appropriate import
>>> library. Alphough it tends to get added in newer PSDK versions, but that's
>>> not a good reason to break compilation with older PSDK versions by removing
>>> dynamic API loading (some people abuse this very badly recently).
>>
>> It's not unreasonable to require a recent PSDK, if that makes the code
>> simpler.
> 
> Some of my test WMs running Widows XP, some Windows 7, it's pretty questionable
> to require installing a Windows 10 SDK there (if it will ever install under XP).
> On the other hand a test compiled under Windows 7 won't run under XP. Personally,
> I find testing under XP and Windows 7 very valueable, please don't ruin that
> ability.
> 

mingw-w64 works quite well for compiling tests to run under XP.