Re:I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again
by maccard on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:26PM
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How do I containerize building desktop apps for windows with MSVC?
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Re:I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again
by eru on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @12:42AM
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Wine?
Less snarky: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont... seems to be a thing?
And in any case, you can use VMs instead of containers.
Re:I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again
by maccard on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @06:32AM
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You know, I'd love to run MSVC in Wine on a ubuntu container. I bet it would be quicker.
I've had the unfortunate pleasure of working with Windows Containers in the past. They are Containers in the sense that you can write a dockerfile for them, and they're somewhat isolated, but they're no better than a VM in my experience.
> And in any case, you can use VMs instead of containers.
They're not the same thing. If that's the case running linux AMI's on EC2 should be the same as containers.
Re:I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again
by akdev1l on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @09:07AM
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It’s the same thing for the purposes of capturing the build environment.
It doesn’t really matter if you have to spin up a Linux instances and then run your build environment as a container there vs spinning up a windows VM.