I used to run a Windows CPAN smoker, but gave up. Windows is just Too Much Pain. I see that I had RedisDB blocked in my distroprefs (that usually means that it hangs during testing). I ran its tests and got...

Running make test
C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h
+arness(0, 'inc', 'blib\lib', '
blib\arch')" t/00-load.t t/basic_redis.t t/cmd_list.t t/cmd_server.t t
+/manifest.t t/network.t t/pod.
t t/protocol.t t/subscribe.t t/transactions.t
# Testing RedisDB 0.14, Perl 5.012003, C:\STRAWB~1\perl\bin\perl.exe
t/00-load.t ....... ok
t/basic_redis.t ... skipped: Can't start redis-server
t/cmd_list.t ...... skipped: Can't start redis-server
t/cmd_server.t .... skipped: Can't start redis-server
t/manifest.t ...... skipped: Author tests not required for installatio
+n

#   Failed test 'Ping'
#   at t/network.t line 33.
# died: Your vendor has not defined Socket macro MSG_DONTWAIT, used at
+ C:\strawberry\cpan\build\Redi
sDB-0.14-u1AMaI\blib\lib/RedisDB.pm line 160

#   Failed test 'pong'
#   at t/network.t line 34.
#          got: undef
#     expected: 'PONG'

#   Failed test 'Connection restored'
#   at t/network.t line 37.
# died: Your vendor has not defined Socket macro MSG_DONTWAIT, used at
+ C:\strawberry\cpan\build\Redi
sDB-0.14-u1AMaI\blib\lib/RedisDB.pm line 160

#   Failed test 'key is set'
#   at t/network.t line 38.
#          got: undef
#     expected: 'OK'

#   Failed test 'Sent command without problems'
#   at t/network.t line 57.
# died: Your vendor has not defined Socket macro MSG_DONTWAIT, used at
+ C:\strawberry\cpan\build\Redi
sDB-0.14-u1AMaI\blib\lib/RedisDB.pm line 160
# Looks like you failed 5 tests of 9.

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It hung at that point :(

In reply to Re: Testing module on Windows by FunkyMonk
in thread Testing module on Windows by zwon

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