Re: help needed: Windows CI broken

On 2026-06-01 12:24 p.m., Jeff McKenna wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

If you don't want to use the automated "Backport" action, then the 
equivalent command is "git cherry-pick" to grab that change and apply it 
to the 2.4.x branch (I don't have privileges on that repo to do that 
command).

Or do you want me to do 2 separate pull requests each time (one into 
trunk, and one into 2.4.x)?  But that seems odd.  But let me know, thanks,

-jeff



-jeff



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