Re: GitLab CI runners for non-Linux systems

[Christoph Reiter <reiter christoph gmail com>]

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 9:20 PM,  <xclaesse gmail com> wrote:
> Le vendredi 18 mai 2018 à 10:52 +0100, Philip Withnall a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Can anybody else provide and maintain CI runners for other platforms?
> > I’d particularly like to see:
> >  • *BSD (probably OpenBSD and NetBSD)
> >  • macOS (ideally several versions, since we support from OS X 10.7
> > upwards[2])
> >  • Android (probably a cross-build)
> >  • More Windows configurations (currently we have MSYS2 on Windows
> > Server 2012; ideally we’d have a MinGW-w64 runner too)
>
> One big item missing in this list is MSVC. Since we already have a
> Windows VM that does MSYS2 CI, is it possible to setup msvc on that one
> too, or does it require a VisualStudio licence, or something?

For the license, gvsbuild [0] builds on appveyor which uses the
community edition, so I think you can get by without a license.
For the MSYS2 CI, the server is a bit low on disk space (10-15GB of
40GB left) as I went for the cheaper one, and I don't want to push it
to the limit really.
But if someone knows how to build glib+deps with msvc and wants to
collaborate feel free to contact me.

[0] https://github.com/wingtk/gvsbuild