Re: CI: windows

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Jannick,

> Le 13 janv. 2020 à 08:18, Jannick <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Akim,
> 
> looking into travis a bit, here something which might be easier (locally I
> am working along the following lines as well):
> - use the MSYS2 shell
> (https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/windows/#how-do-i-use-msys2), my
> favorite unix-like shell on windows. bison, flex, m4, perl etc. are shipped
> in its base package.  Applying the script in the aforementioned link makes
> sure that they are all found on PATH of each of the shells MSYS2, MINGW32
> and MINGW64. The following assumes using the MING64 shell.
> - For doxygen say 'pacman -S doxygen'.
> - For msvc compilation I usually use clang64 (install with, e.g., 'pacboy
> clang:x') which usually looks for the installed MSVC compiler on the system.
> - Using clang and ./configure in the MINGW64 shell: clang's triplet is not
> well understood by config.sub, so some tweaks are needed to charm
> ./configure and its friends. ;)  Note that a shell-specific config.site
> setting defaults is called by ./configure for each of the shells MSYS2,
> MINGW32 and MINGW64.
> 
> HTH.

It does!  Thanks a lot for your input!  Currently I'm fighting with another
branch, and when I'm done with it, I'm start again on the CI for Windows.

For some reason (i.e., being stupid), I had indeed not realized that the
winflexbison port of course must include m4 in some way.  So maybe I can
use it.

Again, thanks a lot!


> Appveyor (https://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-environment) might be an
> alternative to consider which apparently is widely used.

I don't want to spend too much time learning many CI tools.  Travis
is already consuming quite some time of mine.

Cheers!