Re: help needed: Windows CI broken

On 2026-06-01 9:54 a.m., Joe Orton wrote:
> Windows builds have been failing in CI for a while, I think because of
> some changes in the GHA images.
> 
> I burnt some Claude tokens trying to fix the trunk to no avail [1], but
> I have zero interest in this. It will be ... frustrating... if people
> start voting against future 2.4.x rcs because Windows builds are broken
> in some way which was trivial to catch in CI and fix ahead of time.
> 
> Example trunk failure: https://github.com/apache/httpd/actions/runs/25912053842/job/76159381743
> 
> 2.4.x failure is "simpler" because of the cmake version mismatch:
> https://github.com/apache/httpd/actions/runs/25488877019/job/74791446628
> but working around that as suggested did not help.
> 
> Regards, Joe
> 
> [1] https://github.com/notroj/httpd/tree/refs/heads/maybe-fix-windows-ci
> 
> 

Branch 2.4.x needs this change to be backported: 
https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/08138ac986851217ff8f03b495d12ceca9051e24

PS. Suggest to use the Backport action in the httpd repo (we use this 
and it works beautifully 
https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/blob/main/.github/workflows/backport.yml 
)

Regarding trunk, there seems to be many changes in trunk that break the 
Windows MSVC compiler, it would take me a while to go through all of 
those changes (hmm I wonder why those changes made it through your CI 
tests / why they were merged before fixing the tests in Windows - as now 
it seems like a mountain of fixes are needed)

-jeff



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