Meeting: 3rdparty and nightlies

[L. E. Segovia]

Hey,

Rasyuqaa on IRC told me that he couldn't build ANGLE nor Qt due to the
DX shader compiler being missing on the PATH. I wasn't sure if he used
MSVC or llvm-mingw; CMake injects the WindowsSdkDir variable on its own
for the former, so for the sake of consistency, I reverted that commit
and got two green builds.

Best,

amyspark

On 25/01/2023 07:24, Dmitry Kazakov wrote:
> Hi, Alvin!
> 
> There was a report that is still necessary for Krita itself somehow,
> though I don't know the details:
> 
> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/commit/393db6d64296fdbc3589059ac3e0ae081a467212 <https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/commit/393db6d64296fdbc3589059ac3e0ae081a467212>
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 1:06 PM Alvin Wong <alvin at alvinhc.com
> <mailto:alvin at alvinhc.com>> wrote:
> 
>     We do need the Windows SDK to sign binaries and package the msix.
> 
>     On 25/1/2023 17:57, Dmitry Kazakov wrote:
>>
>>
>>         For Windows you likely will need to create a custom image due
>>         to Krita's use of MIngW-LLVM and Strawberry Perl among other
>>         things. Given you still need at least part of the Windows SDK,
>>         please use windows-msvc2019 as your base (which also includes
>>         Python and Git) - the Windows SDK components are a real
>>         mission to get installed reliably in Docker which took more
>>         than a few goes to get working and I don't fancy looking after
>>         that in more than one place.
>>
>>
>>     Just a quick note:
>>     We should  recheck if Windows SDK is really necessary nowadays.
>>     Alvin said we shouldn't require fxc.exe anymore, since we switched
>>     to Google's version of Angle. Though I haven't personally checked
>>     that.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dmitry Kazakov

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