External dependencies for dmd tests

[Daniel Murphy]

"Benjamin Thaut"  wrote in message news:ld5g0q$1c3q$1 at digitalmars.com...

> I would like to extend the DMD testsuite with a test for cv8 debug 
> information. For that however I need a extarnal executable. Dia2Dump wich 
> is part of the examples of visual studio. How is such a situation usually 
> handeled? Is the binary stored prebuild somewhere? This test would only 
> run on windows, so it would be feasable to brebuild the binary. Or is it 
> required to be able to rebuild the external dependencies?

Could you use objconv instead?  I'd much rather we depended on that, and 
hopefully it would open the doors for debug info tests on other platforms.