Just like "ubuntu-from-scratch", create windowsservercore from scratch

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CI scripts for project everest

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Just like "ubuntu-from-scratch", create windowsservercore from scratch #6

Closed msprotz closed 5 years ago

msprotz commented 7 years ago

We should make sure the "from scratch" scenario for windows is also tracked by CI. In the same spirit as ubuntu-from-scratch, we should add a new target in the ci script that:

starts a new docker windowsservercore image, and
passes it the right series of commands that will
install visual studio community edition 2015 with C++ support
install cygwin
launch my script
build everything
run mitls.exe

msprotz commented 7 years ago

This is potentially tricky following discussions with OPAM-Windows folks in Cambridge

dnadlinger commented 7 years ago

Sorry for barging in here, but I just found this through a web search being interested in doing something similar for another project. Could you elaborate a bit on why this could be tricky? (I.e. is this something to do with OPAM or Project Everest in particular, or the steps before that?)

msprotz commented 7 years ago

There's no GUI support in windowsservercore so the cygwin setup would probably have to do without cygwin's setup.exe -- afaik there's no way to run in it silent mode (i.e. via CLI). On the other hand, Cygwin doesn't really rely on the registry so we could use a static tarball.

That's all I remember from the discussions...

s-zanella commented 5 years ago

We now have Everest Windows builds from scratch.