<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4101">Hi list,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4102">Gitlab CI doesn't currently have a way to handle Windows builds using the msys2 environment.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4103"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4104">This makes it difficult to automate a Windows build machine for Purr Data. Yes, something ad hoc, <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4161">undocumented, and buggy could probably be thrown together for this. But I'd much rather have <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4162">the functionality upstream so that we don't have to maintain and/or bugfix a special case for <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4278">Windows machines.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4163"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4164">Luckily, the gitlab CEO added an "Accepting Merge Requests" tag to the corresponding issue <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4165">when I inquired about it:</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4166"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4167"><a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues/1699" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4172">https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues/1699</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4273"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4169">If anyone who knows golang wants to work on this to get msys2 environment working with Gitlab <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4360">CI, I'll happily devote some time to testing it. And I'm sure this would benefit a lot more than just <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4361">Purr Data.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_2844"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496426793815_4362">-Jonathan<br></div></div></body></html>