Windows WPT

windows.md

Installation on Windows

• Install OpenSSL 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 binaries from https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
• Add C:\OpenSSL-Win64\bin\openssl.exe to your system path (Advanced Settings > Environment Variables from Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System).
• Clone Web Platform Tests using the --recursive option
  • e.g. git clone --recursive [email protected]:w3c/web-platform-tests.git
  • Doing git submodule update --init --recursive once the repo was checked out has resulted in bad checkouts for me.
• Update submodules: git submodule update --init --recursive
• Edit hostfile (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts)
  • 127.0.0.1 web-platform.test
  • 127.0.0.1 www.web-platform.test
  • 127.0.0.1 www1.web-platform.test
  • 127.0.0.1 www2.web-platform.test
  • 127.0.0.1 xn--n8j6ds53lwwkrqhv28a.web-platform.test
  • 127.0.0.1 xn--lve-6lad.web-platform.test
  • 0.0.0.0 nonexistent-origin.web-platform.test
• Download and Install Ahem font
• Install Python 2.7. Ensure both C:\Python and C:\Python\Scripts are in your system path
• Clone wptrunner
• Install wptrunner dependencies (in wptrunner directory, pip install --editable ./
• Create manifest file
  • Create a meta directory alongside the wptrunner and web-platform-tests directories
  • Change into the web-platform-tests directory
  • Run python manifest
• Download and install Chrome Canary
• Download and install [Firefox Nightly(https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/)
  • If you have another instance, it is worth adding a new profile in about:profiles and updating the Nightly shortcut (in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs) to set the target to "C:\Program Files\Nightly\firefox.exe" -p <profile_name> -no-remote
• Create a downloadd folder next to web-platform-tests and wptrunner
• Download and unpack the latest Chromedriver in the download folder.
• Install chromedriver requirements. In wptrunner: pip install --requirement requirements_chrome.txt
• Download and upack the latest geckodriver in the download folder.
• Install geckdriver requirements. In wptrunner: pip install --requirement requirements_firefox.txt
• Fetch gecko profile
  • Change into download directory
  • Create a gecko-dev directory inside the download directory
  • Change into the gecko-dev directory
  • git init
  • git remote add origin [email protected]:mozilla/gecko-dev.git
  • git config core.sparsecheckout true
  • Create a file at .git/info/sparse-checkout add the single linetesting/profiles/* to the file and save.
  • git pull --depth=1 origin master