Re: GitLab CI runners for non-Linux systems

[xclaesse gmail com]

Hi,

We now have 6 arch tested for glib, all with Meson.

- fedora-meson-x86_64:
  * Native Linux
  * Builds with --werror
  * All unit tests pass

- fedora-meson-android_ndk_r16_api21_arm64
  * Cross build for Android
  * Fails to build with --werror, if anyone wants to take a look.
  * Cannot run tests because it's cross built

- fedora-meson-mingw64
  * Cross build for Windows 64 bits
  * Fails to build with --werror, if anyone wants to take a look.
  * Cannot run tests because it's cross built, maybe could run with
wine when Meson supports it: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/3
621

- macosx-10.13-meson-x86_64
  * Native macosx 10.13 build
  * Fails to build with --werror, if anyone wants to take a look.
  * Some unit tests fails and are ignored, if anyone wants to take a
look.
  * Machine currently hosted at Collabora Montreal office, will setup
another runner on another machine we have in a proper data center.

- msys2-mingw32
  * Native Windows i686 (I think) build with MSYS2
  * Build with --werror
  * Some unit tests fails and are ignored, if anyone wants to take a
look.
  * Virtual Machine hosted by Christoph Reiter.

- vs2017-x64
  * Native Windows w64 build with MSVC (yes! thanks meson!)
  * Fails to build with --werror, if anyone wants to take a look.
  * Some unit tests fails and are ignored, if anyone wants to take a
look.
  * Virtual Machine hosted by Christoph Reiter. Shared for both msys2
and MSVC builds, maybe will need to clone the VM if it's the
bottleneck.

Missing, if someone wants to contribute:
 - Some autotools runners? IMHO (I'm not maintainer) we should
recommend meson for 2.58 and drop autotools for 2.60.
 - Some 32 bits archs?
 - More macosx/android/windows/distros versions?
 - *BSD
 - Solaris
 - cygwin

Regards,
Xavier Claessens.

Le vendredi 18 mai 2018 à 10:52 +0100, Philip Withnall a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> tl;dr: Want to provide us with a GitLab CI runner for a non-Linux
> platform?
>
> There’s been a surge of interest recently, from various directions,
> in
> getting GLib better tested on non-Linux architectures. This is great,
> and we’ve got various people to thank for doing the thankless work of
> porting and testing. Particularly:
>  • macOS: Ryan Schmidt, Patrick Griffis, Michael Lauer, John Ralls
>  • Windows/MinGW/MSYS2: LRN, Christoph Reiter, Xavier Claessens,
> Chun-
> wei Fan
>  • Android: Xavier Claessens
>  • *BSD: Ting-Wei Lan
>
> There’s a real risk of this all bitrotting, though, since the main
> GLib
> developers only have regular access to Linux machines (and don’t have
> the bandwidth or expertise to regularly test on other architectures).
>
> The solution here is CI. Christoph Reiter has already got a Windows
> MSYS2 CI runner set up on GitLab[1], which is producing helpful
> results
> for GLib.
>
> 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)
>
> After the initial setup and porting work, I hope these wouldn’t
> require
> much effort to maintain. The fast turnaround on testing GLib on non-
> Linux platforms would help us ensure cross-platform compatibility
> during development.
>
> Thanks,
> Philip
>
> [1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/creiter/gitlab-ci-win32-runner
> [2]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GLib/SupportedPlatforms
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