MattJones

Matt Jones

Email: <matt.wine@mhjones.org>

Goals

I'm trying to get Mono 1.2 to run non-trivial applications under wine. To accomplish this I've written a series of testing scripts for mono-under-wine that automate and interpret the built-in mono regression tests.

TODO List

Immediate:

  • Intro/walkthrough to running individual tests
  • Fix Mono-1.2 GC bug (again)
  • Look into DLL loading error in Mono-1.2

Farther into the future:

  • Mono has a tool called Moma - it lets you "audit" an assembly to see how it should perform under mono. It uses markup in the source to display this information. I'd be interested in playing around with a similar tool for wine, which would hook into both stub lists & test results.

Building Mono-1.2 from SVN on windows

I've been building revision 83139 from svn. The svn source is very temperamental - I'd suggest finding a version that works and then being very careful about how you upgrade. Note: I'm not just using the stable source, as 1.2.4 contains a crashing bug under windows when certain debug flags are set.

  • Follow the directions at http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/02/07/monowindows.html?page=1 to build mono for windows with the following changes during cygwin install/post-install:

  • Copy installation directory of your build to your linux host
  • Install an official windows build of mono (I used 1.2.4 for my build of r83139)
    • Extract installation directory over the official build
      • The mono installation bundles lots of extra dependency libraries, so this saves you from doing lots of extra work
      • This isn't entirely foolproof - a couple of things break (which we don't need for the tests), so this doesn't create a fully usable mono build
  • You now have a full mono build ready to play with under wine!

You can try playing around with the MONO_DEBUG=(various, it will give you examples if you set it to garbage text) and MONO_LOG_LEVEL=debug to get a better idea of what's happening.

Using Mono Testing Scripts

Example (old, running Mono-1.13.8.2 on various revisions of wine): http://mhjones.org/wine/wine-tests/htmltest/index.py.html

Git Repository: http://mhjones.org/wine/wine-test-reader.git

The best way to use the scripts is to download them and follow the README. There is an initial setup script and a nightly update script included, which should automate almost everything.

You'll need around 2.5G to build/run the wine portion. After that, you'll be able to browse the test results and compare the various platforms

How to interpret test results

TODO

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MattJones (last edited 2011-11-10 09:33:14 by DmitryTimoshkov)