Gitlab CI for Windows

[Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io)]

On 2022-01-04 20:57, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 8:53 AM Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io [1])
> <christoph at cullmann.io> wrote:
> 
>> On 2022-01-04 20:23, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 6:36 AM Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io [1]
>> [1])
>>> <christoph at cullmann.io> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2022-01-04 18:24, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Next update in this saga appears to be a defect in KDeclarative,
>>>> which
>>>>> apparently has a hard dependency on KGlobalAccel.
>>>>> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-management/-/jobs/195039
>>>>> 
>>>>> While this is something that we have previously built on
>> Windows,
>>>> from
>>>>> my understanding it is essentially a no-op that does nothing so
>> we
>>>>> should probably skip building it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can someone please take a look into this and advise whether
>>>>> KDeclarative can also make it optional?
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I can take a look.
>>> 
>>> If you could, that would be much appreciated.
>> 
>> Nicolas was faster :=)
>> 
>> I would assume master should already build.
>> 
>> I have some additional small patch here
>> 
>> 
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kdeclarative/-/commit/7200ad3d518f199ac040afcaf8d3330fd3f79ab7
>> 
>> Btw., it seems the unit tests fail in the classic CI.
>> Is it possible that some data/ dir is created in bin/ for Windows?
>> This seems to confuse the auto tests where to find their input.
> 
> Yes, that is to be expected.
> 
> On Windows QStandardPaths expects to find resources in the folder
> data/ immediately relative to the executable.
> As our executables are installed into bin/ we therefore have to
> install those resources (which on a OSS Unix system would be in
> $prefix/share/) into $prefix/bin/data/
> 
> The CI Tooling also does some additional tweaking in that department
> by copying in the resources from the libraries made available via
> Craft to that location as well (otherwise things like
> shared-mime-database won't be found)

Ok, will just alter the input path for the auto-tests then.
It must not be data ;=)

Greetings
Christoph

> 
>> Greetings
>> Christoph
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben
> 
>>> 
>>>> Greetings
>>>> Christoph
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ben
>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Ben
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 7:51 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 9:00 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Over the past few days substantial progress has been made in
>>>>>>> getting Windows builds running under Gitlab, to the point
>> where
>>>>>>> some Frameworks are now successfully compiling.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Unfortunately we've run into a little issue with breeze-icons
>> as
>>>>>>> can be seen at
>>>>>>> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-management/-/jobs/193039
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Following investigation and some testing by Harald we've
>>>> confirmed
>>>>>> that this is a CMake bug - with it being unable to handle
>>>> symlinks
>>>>>> on Windows correctly.
>>>>>> For now I shall workaround the issue by disabling use of
>> symlinks
>>>> on
>>>>>> Windows in Git (git config --system core.symlinks false)
>> however
>>>>>> that is not an ideal long term fix.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Do we have any contacts at CMake we can escalate this bug to?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> As for why this didn't show up earlier - it seems our Windows
>>>>>> builders for Jenkins have symlinks disabled (indicating that
>>>> either
>>>>>> the feature was still too experimental back then or that we did
>>>> hit
>>>>>> this back then and worked around it then as well)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Ben
>>>> 
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