Magma tests failed on Windows XP

[David T. Lewis]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:37:28PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
> 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.

Hi, that would be me :)

> 
> 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.
> 

OSProcess on Windows has only minimal functionality, so the portions
of the test suite that use OSProcess for launching other squeak images
may not work on Windows at all. Certainly #forkSqueak will not work
on Windows, and anything that involves communicating between the
squeak images through pipes is not going to work.

I don't know the specifics of how OSProcess is being used in the
Magma tests, but if it relies on OSProcess features that are not
present on Windows (very likely), then I can suggest the ProcessWrapper
package on SqueakSource as a possible alternative for implementing
the tests on Windows.

Note, I am traveling and cannot look at any Squeak or Magma code at
the moment, so apologies for the rather vague response here.

HTH,
Dave


> 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 T??dter
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