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diff --git a/HACKING.adoc b/HACKING.adoc index cf71980576..aadce861b7 100644 --- a/HACKING.adoc +++ b/HACKING.adoc @@ -389,6 +389,29 @@ entry needed)" in one of your commit messages -- but in general all patches submitted should come with a Changes entry; see the guidelines in link:CONTRIBUTING.md[]. +The Windows ports take a long time to test - INRIA's precheck service is the +best to use when all 6 Windows ports need testing for a branch, but the +AppVeyor scripts also support the other ports. The matrix is controlled by +the following environment variables, which should be set in appveyor.yml: + +- `PORT` - this must be set on each job. Either `mingw`, `msvc` or `cygwin` + followed by `32` or `64`. +- `BOOTSTRAP_FLEXDLL` - must be set on each job. Either `true` or `false`. + At present, must be `false` for Cygwin builds. Controls whether flexlink + is bootstrapped as part of the test or installed from a binary archive. +- `FORCE_CYGWIN_UPGRADE`. Default: `0`. Set to `1` to force an upgrade of + Cygwin packages as part of the build. Normally a full upgrade is only + triggered if the packages installed require it. +- `BUILD_MODE`. Default: `world.opt`. Either `world.opt`, `steps`, or `C`. + Controls whether the build uses the `world.opt` target or the classic + `world`, `opt`, `opt.opt` targets. The `C` build is a fast test used to + build just enough of the tree to cover the C sources (it's used to test + old MSVC compilers). +- `SDK`. Defaults to Visual Studio 2015. Specifies the exact command to run + to set-up the Microsoft build environment. +- `CYGWIN_DIST`. Default: `64`. Either `64` or `32`, selects 32-bit or 64-bit + Cygwin as the build environment. + ==== INRIA's Continuous Integration (CI) INRIA provides a Jenkins continuous integration service that OCaml |