[Freeassociation-devel] Testing Libical on Macs (Was: Testing Libical on Windows for the next release)

[Allen Winter]

Come to think of it, we could also use testing on the Mac as well.



On Friday 24 June 20 11 9:23:54 AM Allen Winter wrote:
> Volunteers,
> 
> I added a windows-test subdir to the freeassociation/branches SVN repo.
> So what you will be testing is in freeassociation/branches/windows-test/libical
> 
> See http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=svn&group_id=16077 for subversion access info.
> 
> Instructions for building with CMake can be found in README.cmake.
> You might try using the automake/autoconf buildsystem too if you have msys and all that.
> 
> In particular I had a hard time with 'make test' crashing when attempting to access timezone info.
> You can test using the libical builtin Olsen zoneinfo by passing -DUSE_BUILTIN_TZDATA=true to cmake.
> 
> Let us know how it goes .. and thanks.
> -Allen
> 
> On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 07:34:58 am Allen Winter wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > Over the past few months I have made a lot of changes to the buildsystem (mainly the CMake buildsystem) for Windows using various combinations of mingw and MSVC.
> > 
> > However, I'm scared to commit those changes without more testing by people who know Windows better than I do.
> > 
> > So this is a call for volunteers to test building and using my changes on Windows.
> > I can send you tarballs of my work and you would test it locally and let me know.
> > Or I could commit into a test branch.
> > 
> > Volunteers?
> > 
> > Another  point... 'make test' crashes for anything that touches timezone files.
> > Which means I need someone who knows how to deal with timezones on Windows too.
> > 
> > Help appreciated,
> > Allen
> > _______________________________________________