X86_mscoff / x86_64 as default for dub projects (windows)

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On Saturday, 8 December 2018 at 03:25:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Friday, December 7, 2018 8:09:37 PM MST Rubn via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Saturday, 8 December 2018 at 02:08:14 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
>> wrote:
>> > On Friday, December 7, 2018 3:15:30 PM MST Rubn via
>> >> This is part of the problem, in that there are more tests 
>> >> run on Linux than Windows. DMD doesn't even compile it self 
>> >> on Windows to test. It does for linux though. Also some of 
>> >> the community projects are all compiled and tested on linux 
>> >> but not windows. That's the state it is in, the only tests 
>> >> that are run are the most basic ones. Can't expect DMD on 
>> >> Windows to be stable at all, if ever that's the way it goes 
>> >> though I guess. No one seems to care or thinks running 
>> >> tests on linux only is good enough for windows.
>> >
>> > The entire test suite for druntime, Phobos, and dmd has to 
>> > pass on all supported platforms on the auto-tester:
>> >
>> > https://auto-tester.puremagic.com/
>> >
>> > Windows is not exempt from that. So, unless there are a 
>> > bunch of tests in the test suite which are needlessly 
>> > platform-specific, Windows is getting tested just as much as 
>> > Linux is. Where do you get the idea that it's not?
>> >
>> > - Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> https://ci.dlang.io/blue/organizations/jenkins/dlang-org%2Fdmd/detail/PR-8 519/3/pipeline
>>
>> I guess that's just another dead project, so I guess no 
>> platform is getting those tests anymore. Too bad, I guess 
>> that's another story for D, unless they moved to something 
>> else.
>
> I think that they moved those tests to buildkite, but I don't 
> know what the exact situation with that is right now.

That's correct. Buildkite is a lot easier to work with then 
Jenkins.
Here's the overview page for the dlang pipelines:

https://buildkite.com/dlang


> While the main auto-tester has been the same for ages, they 
> keep changing what they're doing with the other tests.

Yeah, we use too many resources for any of the free CIs to handle 
it. Though it looks like our current move to Buildkite was a good 
one and we can unify a few services under it - though as long as 
no one actually has Windows or OSX machines, that will be hard.

> But I believe that the tests for each project are run using 
> travis and depend on how each project set that up, so which 
> which platforms they test is going to vary from project to 
> project. And I don't think that that includes Windows at all, 
> because that would require something like appveyor.

We use Appveyor for DMD and druntime, though we keep running into 
the limit there too.

> So, the testing of projects beyond dmd and the standard library 
> is only on *nix systems AFAIK, but dmd itself and the standard 
> library are definitely tested on all of the platforms that dmd 
> supports.

Yup, as mentioned currently we just don't have any Windows nor 
OSX machines to hook up with Buildkite.

>> What you linked are just those basic tests, those tests don't 
>> do anything complicated like building DMD itself with the 
>> newly created DMD and running the tests for both to ensure a 
>> correct binary is produced.
>
> The new compiler is built and used to run the druntime and 
> Phobos test suites. Then it's used with the newly built 
> druntime and Phobos to run the dmd test suite. So, the new dmd 
> binary is definitely being tested, but no, the newly built dmd 
> isn't then used to build dmd yet again as part of those tests.

This bootstrapping is tested (though not on the Auto-Tester). 
That's e.g. what we do with SemaphoreCI.