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Is cross-compiling from Debian to Windows via mingw32 using WSL an option? This way you could keep Win32 desktops and (at least) have a build process which tak
by gjvc 5y ago
Is cross-compiling from Debian to Windows via mingw32 using WSL an option? This way you could keep Win32 desktops and (at least) have a build process which takes advantage of a shared ccache directory or http service.
(not an out-of-box solution, but perhaps useful in addition to what you already have, for checking basic build integrity,
for example)
- maccard 5y agoIve not looked into that approach yet. Our next step optimisation is going to be to manually change our compile checks to check every file changed individually, rather than a full build every change, and catch the cascaded changes on a regular schedule. Best guess is this will end up reducing our ci costs by around 25%, at the cost of writing it ourselves
- duped 5y agoI can't speak for anyone else, but I help maintain a large-ish codebase that releases on all the major desktops. Compile times aren't great but they only account for around 15% of the total CI time. Cross compiling wouldn't really help us, since we need to run end to end and integration tests on actual machines.
- gjvc 5y agoyour case is different from the one in question, then