Use MSVC for the Windows toolchain instead of MinGW #456
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I was debating between the need for this action versus the risk: it looks like ~17k other projects depend on this, it has more than a few contributors, and the action is relatively simple — if it solves the problem then let's go for it.
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Yeah I was wrestling with the same. I spend 30 min or so googling around to see if there were other common solutions to this but everything pointed to a github action one way or another so I opted to do that with a specific sha to at least be insulated against changes.
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personally, I would fork any dep like this (in case the repo gets deleted, repurposed, ...)
Explicitly use MSVC to avoid the runtime dependencies that the default toolchain CMake is using is bringing in. Closes WebAssembly#454
Co-authored-by: Andrew Brown <andrew.brown@intel.com>
Looks like MSVC defaults to "Debug" instead of an empty string to so the default logic which works for other compilers isn't kicking in here.
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Got a successful CI run, but I'm going to rerun CI to confirm that caching makes it so the next run isn't 2 hours. Afterwards I'll download this on a windows machine and test that things work as expected. |
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I was able to compile dotnet/mono using the artifact from this PR on my local windows |
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The "cached build" took 2+ hours so I'm going to try to dig in to why ccache isn't working. |
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Hm on a new commit it worked with a ~20m build time, similar to today. Given that I think this is ok, so I'm going to merge. |
Explicitly use MSVC to avoid the runtime dependencies that the default toolchain CMake is using is bringing in.
Closes #454