Hi, I've spent a bit of time over the past few days trying to get notmuch to build and run tests on CygWin and AppVeyor CI's systems (AppVeyor being a gratis continuous integration provider for Windows). Not from some personal need, but simply because I generally enjoy and have some experience with tinkering with CI systems. I've gotten as far as to get everything to build and the test suite to run (but not pass). A few ugly hacks were needed (luckily, mostly outside notmuch's existing codebase), mainly related to talloc, as it seems that it (or Waf, which it uses) does not speak Cygwin well. I will probably draw the line here, as it looks like actually fixing some of the failing tests would take some non-trivial work (e.g. one test failure I saw seems to point towards a bug in Xapian/Cygwin). I'm also not convinced that, practically speaking, the effort would be well spent, as probably the best way to run notmuch under Windows would be using Windows Subsystem for Linux instead of an userspace POSIX environment like Cygwin or MSYS. Some notes: - 64-bit Cygwin seems to work much better than the 32-bit version, which ran into issues apparently caused by the limited address space in some scenarios I've seen. - Partial updates of a Cygwin installation can predictably lead to a broken installation. --upgrade-also should always be used for unattended invocations of Cygwin's setup.exe. - MSYS also packages Xapian and gmime, however an MSYS port is likely to be even more challenging, as it provides less of the POSIX environment than Cygwin. You can see the current AppVeyor results here (warning, large page): https://ci.appveyor.com/project/CyberShadow/notmuch/build/1.0.26 Development drafts of patch series is here: https://github.com/CyberShadow/notmuch/commits/appveyor Vladimir Panteleev (8): lib: Fix talloc not being defined on Cygwin Split CONFIGURE_LDFLAGS out of FINAL_LIBNOTMUCH_LDFLAGS lib: Fix libnotmuch.so link under Cygwin configure: Refactor uname parsing into a case statement configure: Detect Cygwin, and set PLATFORM accordingly Fix linking shared library on Cygwin test: Don't attempt to build symbol-test on Cygwin Add AppVeyor CI configuration and test script Makefile.global | 12 +++++- Makefile.local | 2 +- appveyor.yml | 7 ++++ configure | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- devel/appveyor.sh | 39 ++++++++++++++++++ lib/Makefile.local | 2 +- lib/database-private.h | 4 +- test/Makefile.local | 5 ++- 8 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) create mode 100644 appveyor.yml create mode 100644 devel/appveyor.sh -- 2.13.3 _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch