Running test suites under Windows 7

Sönke Ludwig sludwig at outerproduct.org
Sat Oct 6 00:21:57 PDT 2012


Am 10/6/2012 8:41 AM, schrieb Walter Bright:
> When I first installed Win7, I was having problems with erratic failures
> to write executable files while running the D test suite. Eventually, I
> discovered that Windows Defender was the problem, as it tried to do a
> virus can on every exe the test suite produced.
> 
> Turning off WD helped a lot, but I still got those failures every once
> in a while.
> 
> I have since discovered that "Microsoft Security Essentials" was doing a
> "real time scan", mucking things up. That has to be turned off, too.

Jep, it's definitely not easy to get this reliable on Windows. Back when
I had a similar problem, an explorer window displaying the same folder
also caused this.


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