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sipickles
sipickles

Reputation: 1662

Testing Release Builds

Here's my problem

I have a C++ project which issues periodic iterations. These are release builds run by hand in MVSC2008.

On my dev machines, these release builds run fine but don't on machines which don't have the build environment installed (in this instance, its not a Side-by-Side error).

My question is how do I simulate a clients PC (a windows machine with no build environment), to test these builds? I rarely have access to a PC without MSVC installed!

Your learn-ed advice most welcome.

Si

Upvotes: 1

Views: 139

Answers (2)

Svisstack
Svisstack

Reputation: 16636

Deploy your software to clean system on virtual machine. I have installed Windows XP, Vista and 7 in clean state with undo drives, then when i test software i can undo disk changes and i have new clean system in 5 seconds.

Upvotes: 2

Blindy
Blindy

Reputation: 67437

This is exactly what Virtual PC was made for.

Microsoft even offers free image downloads for testing: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en

Upvotes: 2

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