Fix simulink build for Windows in GH Actions#3162
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Pull request overview
This PR fixes Windows executable build failures in GitHub Actions by updating the Intel oneAPI installation process and cleaning up leftover build files. The changes upgrade from the older IFORT compiler to IFX and reduce workflow runtime to approximately 1 hour.
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- Consolidated two separate Intel oneAPI installations (BaseKit + HPCKit) into a single Fortran Essentials 2025.3.0 installation
- Added cleanup of
build/libdirectory before building the MATLAB configuration to prevent issues from leftover files
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| .github/workflows/deploy.yml | Simplified Intel oneAPI installation by replacing BaseKit and HPCKit with Fortran Essentials toolkit |
| .github/scripts/build_windows_executables.bat | Added build/lib directory cleanup before MATLAB solution build to prevent leftover file conflicts |
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Feature or improvement description
This PR fixes the issue with building Windows executables in Github Actions. It also updates the action to use the latest Intel oneAPI Fortran Essentials toolkit with reduces the runtime to 1 hour and upgrades to the IFX compiler instead of IFORT. These changes worked when manually running the deploy workflow for this branch.
I think the main issue was leftover files from previous builds in the
build/libdirectory, so a command was used to remove it before building theRelease_MATLABconfiguration.Impacted areas of the software
deploy.ymlandbuild_windows_executables.bat