CI failing on Windows all of a sudden

[asmaloney]

I have no idea why the CI is failing to find Xerces on Windows all of a sudden without any changes in the repo. Could be the CI runner, miniconda, CMake, or something else entirely.

I spent a bunch of time in this branch trying to figure it out (also switched to micromamba which seems like a good move) and I'm giving up.

I updated all the actions to get rid of some warnings and I'm going to leave it there.

If you care about the Windows CI builds, feel free to take a look and submit a PR.

[dancergraham]

With the pye57 library we have pinned the windows runner to windows-2019 for now and it is working with miniconda
https://github.com/davidcaron/pye57/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml
see logs here showing successful installation of xerces-c last month
https://github.com/davidcaron/pye57/actions/runs/8960241748/job/24606528402

[dancergraham]

Hello, Is this because of the switch from setup-miniconda@v2 to setup-miniconda@v3 ? Ahh I see you updated actions to try to fix the issue but your actions are still working for me in pye57 with an old version of libe57format with setup-miniconda@v2...

[dancergraham]

It occurs to me that builds are still working on Cloud Compare (albeit with an older version of this library) - I wonder whether there are good ideas to be found in their setup ...

[dgirardeau]

I confirm it was even working with the latest version very recently. You can refer to any recent commit before eca5a4389e611316ec9a80917ff1fd46ea7f10b8.

I believe @rjanvier recently worked on updating the CI to make everything work.

To give some more context, we've just reverted to an older version of the lib after some users reported having issues opening E57 files generated with the latest version of libE57Format with SW packages such as RealityCapture, FARO Scene and Solid Works Xtract. We are still investigating this particular issue on our side before opening an issue on this repo.