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ci: add a runner for Windows 10 This is currently only manually invoked, and allows for failure because we only have a single runner that takes over 2h for a full run, and there are a handful of flakey tests, plus 3 known failing tests. The system being used here is running MSYS, Python, Visual Studio, etc, as installed by `install-windows-dependencies.ps1`. This script installs everything to a specific directory instead of using the defaults, so we adjust the MinGW shell path to compensate. Additionally, the script doesn't install the launcher `py.exe`. It is possible to adjust the script to install it, but it's an option to an existing python install (instead of a standalone installer), and I've had the whole python install fail and rollback when requested to install the launcher if it detects a newer one is already installed. In short, it is a point of failure for a feature we don't (yet?) need. Unlike other systems where the intepreter name includes the version, everything here is `python.exe`, so they can't all exist on `PATH` and let the script choose the desired one. (The `py.exe` launcher would accomplish, using the registry instead of `PATH`, but that wouldn't allow for venv installs.) Because of this, switch to the absolute path of the python interpreter to be used (in this case a venv created from the py39 install, which is old, but what both pyoxidizer and TortoiseHg currently use). The `RUNTEST_ARGS` hardcodes `-j8` because this system has 4 cores, and therefore runs 4 parallel tests by default. However on Windows, using more parallel tests than cores results in better performance for whatever reason. I don't have an optimal value yet (ideally the runner itself can make the adjustment on Windows), but this results in saving ~15m on a full run that otherwise takes ~2.5h. I'm also not concerned about how it would affect other Windows machines, because we don't have any at this point, and I have no idea when we can get more. As far as system setup goes, the CI is run by a dedicated user that lacks admin rights. The install script was run by an admin user, and then the standard user was configured to use it. If I set this up again, I'd probably give the dedicated user admin rights to run the install script, and reset to standard user rights when done. The python intepreter failed in weird ways when run by the standard user until it was manually reinstalled by the standard user: Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding Additionally, changing the environment through the Windows UI prompts to escalate to an admin user, and then setting the user level environment variables like `TEMP` and `PATH` (to try to avoid exceeding the 260 character path limit) didn't actually change the user's environment. (Likely it changed the admin user's environment, but I didn't confirm that.) I ended up having to use the registry editor for the standard user to make those changes.
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
date Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:15:53 -0400
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