LEARNING FUN THINGS: specifying -G Ninja for CMake in GitHub actions on Windows makes CMake default to not using Visual Studio anymore. Which is. ... Great. - ThreadSky

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thephd.dev • 8 days ago

LEARNING FUN THINGS: specifying -G Ninja for CMake in GitHub actions on Windows makes CMake default to not using Visual Studio anymore. Which is. ... Great.

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bobini.bsky.social•8 days ago

Hm? What does it pick instead? Clang?

thephd.dev•8 days ago

mingw, but the options being passed are for MSVC so it's failing right now

thephd.dev•8 days ago

Strangely, this ONLY happens with GitHub Actions. On my personal Windows machine it picks Visual Studio, though MAYBE that's because II've purged mingw from my machine.

Wonder what I can do about that. Maybe invoke vsdevcmd before everything kicks off...

partouf.bsky.social•8 days ago

It depends on PATH probably, GH actions Windows machines have all the compilers and things. Gotta specify CXX and point to the right cl.exe, or filter things you dont want out of PATH and what not

partouf.bsky.social•8 days ago

Oh actually... CXX might not work. We have this nonsense setup https://github.com/compiler-explorer/infra/blob/main/bin/lib/library_builder.py#L587 and a bunch more exceptions for Windows and MSVC

thephd.dev•8 days ago

I'm looking into trying to force vsdevcmd to run to make cl.exe be at the top, so hopefully that does the trick

thephd.dev•8 days ago

It seems to do the trick, yay!

thephd.dev•8 days ago

Took a bit, but YAY!

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