Re: Base status

[Fred Kiefer]

On 15.08.2011 13:03, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> On my Windows XP running in a VMware with GNUstep for MinGW things don't
> look that well. I have 47 failed tests and one failed build. It looks
> like everything related to character encodings, NSJSONSerialization and
> NSURL is failing. I will look into this in more detail and report back.

These tests were done with an old installation of MinGW. I switched to 
the new one yesterday and now the results look even worse :-(

I have about 1400 failed tests, luckily most of these come from one 
single NSURL test. Attached you will find the the test logs.

There are a few worrying tests here. For example we get a warning about 
-isClass when compiling the file NSObject/test01.m and both these tests 
there fail. (The first test in this file actually tests +isClass)

I don't quite understand the test in NSObject/initialize.m, but MinGW 
doesn't have SIGALRM, we will need to have a compile time check there.

Plenty of the GSMime tests fail, but I am not sure whether this is 
related to Richard's recent changes.

We also have problems with NSDecimalNumber and NSNumberFormatter. The 
later may be due to ICU bugs on MinGW.

There is also a more general issue on MinGW. When compiling the source 
we get plenty of warnings. These are caused by passing a char* pointer 
into Windows functions that expect wide characters. We introduced the 
type GSNativeChar to work around the issue that 
-fileSystemRepresentation should return a wide character pointer on 
Windows, but we need to use this type for all the temporary variables as 
well. Not sure, whether we should address this before the next release 
though.

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