Re: [PATCH 1/7] tests/docker: Use Fedora containers for MinGW cross-builds in the gitlab-CI

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 07:43:14PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> According to our support policy, we do not support Debian 9 in QEMU
> anymore, and we only support building the Windows binaries with a
> very recent version of the MinGW toolchain. So we should not test
> the MinGW cross-compilation with Debian 9 anymore, but switch to
> something newer like Fedora. To do this, we need a separate Fedora
> container for each build that provides the QEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTS
> environment variable.
> Unfortunately, the MinGW 64-bit compiler seems to be a little bit
> slow, so we also have to disable some features like "capstone" in the
> build here to make sure that the CI pipelines still finish within a
> reasonable amount of time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  .gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml                   | 10 +++++
>  .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml                  |  4 +-
>  .../dockerfiles/fedora-win32-cross.docker     | 42 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .../dockerfiles/fedora-win64-cross.docker     | 38 +++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora-win32-cross.docker
>  create mode 100644 tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora-win64-cross.docker
> 
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
> index 8c89efeb6d..15e7b564f9 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
> @@ -248,6 +248,16 @@ i386-fedora-cross-container:
>    variables:
>      NAME: fedora-i386-cross
>  
> +win32-fedora-cross-container:
> +  <<: *container_job_definition
> +  variables:
> +    NAME: fedora-win32-cross
> +
> +win64-fedora-cross-container:
> +  <<: *container_job_definition
> +  variables:
> +    NAME: fedora-win64-cross
> +
>  amd64-ubuntu1804-container:
>    <<: *container_job_definition
>    variables:
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
> index 4ec7226b5c..510cfec03b 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
> @@ -105,9 +105,9 @@ cross-s390x-user:
>  cross-win32-system:
>    <<: *cross_system_build_job_definition
>    variables:
> -    IMAGE: debian-win32-cross
> +    IMAGE: fedora-win32-cross
>  
>  cross-win64-system:
>    <<: *cross_system_build_job_definition
>    variables:
> -    IMAGE: debian-win64-cross
> +    IMAGE: fedora-win64-cross
> diff --git a/tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora-win32-cross.docker b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora-win32-cross.docker
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..5903e1b0b4
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora-win32-cross.docker
> @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
> +FROM fedora:32
> +
> +# Please keep this list sorted alphabetically
> +ENV PACKAGES \
> +    bc \
> +    bzip2 \
> +    diffutils \
> +    findutils \
> +    gcc \
> +    gettext \
> +    git \
> +    hostname \
> +    make \
> +    meson \
> +    mingw32-bzip2 \
> +    mingw32-curl \
> +    mingw32-glib2 \
> +    mingw32-gmp \
> +    mingw32-gnutls \
> +    mingw32-gtk3 \
> +    mingw32-libjpeg-turbo \
> +    mingw32-libpng \
> +    mingw32-libtasn1 \
> +    mingw32-nettle \
> +    mingw32-nsis \
> +    mingw32-pixman \
> +    mingw32-pkg-config \
> +    mingw32-SDL2 \

It feels like we could be removing the mingw packages from the
main fedora.docker now, so it results in smaller images.


Regards,
Daniel
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