Upcoming CI changes - transition to VM based CI

[Volker Krause]

On Dienstag, 3. Juni 2025 11:30:51 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Ben Cooksley 
wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM Lukas Sommer <sommerluk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a question. Currently we have a static Windows Qt5 build, but we
> > don't have a static windows Qt6 build, right? So when removing Qt5, there
> > won't be any static windows build at all anymore?
> 
> Unless someone does the work to look into what is needed to have Windows
> static builds with Qt 6, that is correct. The changes needed may be rather
> minimal.
> I'm not entirely sure what is involved, and looking at the setup i'm not
> sure if the builds are true static builds as I don't think we have a static
> Qt build on Windows.

From what I remember the static Qt5 Windows job was just like its Linux 
counter-part only doing static builds of our stuff on top of a dynamic Qt. That 
catches some issues but doesn't result in something actually working, 
especially once (QML) plugins are involved. Those "semi-static" jobs were 
largely lost in the Qt6 migration, as nobody did the work to port them.

We added an entirely new static Linux Qt 6 job though that actually uses a 
statically built Qt. That however exposed many more gaps in our support for 
static builds. And while we probably caught a lot of things also affecting 
Windows that way, it's likely more work than just a 1:1 port of the "semi-
static" build to Qt6.

Regards,
Volker
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