Magma tests failed on Windows XP

[Chris Muller]

Thanks for reporting Hartwig.  Do you happen to have
OSProcessPlugin.dll in your squeak vm directory?  If not, but are able
to compile a C program on Windows, this mail from Eliot might help you
generate the C source-code which can then be compiled into a working
Plugin which you can drop into your vm directory.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2011-June/160354.html

As well, the latest cogwin.zip at:

   http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2459/

includes the plugin binary - but I don't know if that problem will be fixed.

I know this has been a problem for a some time - I have just contacted
the author of OSProcess and asked for assistance.

Magma itself does not use OSProcess - only the test-suite does to
auto-launch the other squeak images which are only used as players in
a network-based test-suite.

Magma is fully-functional on Linux today but I have not run Magma
full-time in Windows for several years.  However I do expect it to
work completely and correctly (as well as on the Mac).  But until we
can run the test-suite on those platforms, we can't be sure, right?

 - Chris



On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Toedter, Hartwig
<H.Toedter at iks-gmbh.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I loaded Magma into my Pharo 1.2.1 image using the script
> “Pharo1.1.2-load-magma.st” (on the web site named Pharo1.2-load-magma.st) on
> Windows XP.
>
>
>
> After running the script I tried to verify the installation with running
> “MagmaTestCase fullSuite maDebug” from a Workspace. This ended with an error
> (se the attached debug log).
>
>
>
> My short analysis was, that the class ExternalWindowsOSProcess is not
> suitable for the tests. Which means the tests won’t run under Windows XP.
>
>
>
> Does that further mean Magma won’t run under Windows XP?
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Hartwig Tödter
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