Re: [PATCH] gitlab-ci: Test compilation on Windows with MSYS2

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 11/16/21 08:05, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 6:31 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org
> <mailto:f4bug@amsat.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 11/15/21 15:06, Thomas Huth wrote:
>     > Gitlab also provides runners with Windows, we can use them to
>     > test compilation with MSYS2, in both, 64-bit and 32-bit.
>     >
>     > However, it takes quite a long time to set up the VM, so to
>     > stay in the 1h time frame, we can only compile and check one
>     > target here.
> 
> 
> I wonder why gitlab does not offer the docker executor. On the
> freedesktop gitlab instance, they have windows docker executor, which
> speeds up the build time. Maybe we could also have our own Windows
> runner for qemu?

We could, foss.org provides the QEMU project with x86 VMs resources
we are not using. What we miss is a sysadmin willing to setup &
maintain a such runner.