[cmake-developers] Recent good Windows platform test results on Wine

Mathias Gaunard mathias.gaunard at ens-lyon.org
Tue Jan 1 15:01:56 EST 2013


On 27/12/12 12:48, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> The CMake/MinGW/MSYS/Wine platform is useful for free (in
> both senses) Windows platform testing of software that is normally
> developed on Linux or Mac OS X.
>
> Here is the status report for the combination of CMake-2.8.10.2,
> MinGW-4.7.0, and MSYS on the Wine-1.5.19 platform that is
> accessible from Linux.
>
> That combination of versions appears to work essentially flawlessly.
> Note, I am using the downloaded Windows binary version of
> CMake-2.8.10.2 rather than bootstrap building it, although I presume
> bootstrapping would work as well since that worked for an earlier
> version of Wine.
>
> [...]
>
> Note, that using Wine this way is still for early adopters.

Why don't you simply build with a linux build of cmake and mingw?

Then you can use wine to run whatever test suite if you want.

This has been working fine since many versions.




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