[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8358538: Update GHA Windows runner to 2025 [v2]

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:21:17 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Fixes GHA. Current Windows runners are already in brown-out stage, and will be decommissioned by the end of the month. So we need to get it into update repos soon.
>> 
>> Additional testing:
>>  - [ ] GHA
>
> Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains two commits:
> 
>  - Backport 72679c94ee00c87b9b51233938e5ffa97ef825b1
>  - Backport b787ff6def08a050b690b60e4a0ceb3aec2b73c8

Tier1 compiler failures on Windows seem related. Failures look like:


----------System.err:(26/1550)----------
artifact resolution error: jdk.test.lib.artifacts.ArtifactResolverException: Couldn't automatically resolve dependency for devkit-windows_x64 , revision VS2017-15.5.5+1.0
Please specify the location using jdk.test.lib.artifacts.devkit-windows_x64
 stdout: [Compiling libDeoptimizationTest.so...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Can't locate Microsoft Visual Studio amd64 link.exe
	at jdk.aot at 11.0.29-internal/jdk.tools.jaotc.Linker.<init>(Linker.java:112)
	at jdk.aot at 11.0.29-internal/jdk.tools.jaotc.Main.run(Main.java:160)
	at jdk.aot at 11.0.29-internal/jdk.tools.jaotc.Main.run(Main.java:133)
	at jdk.aot at 11.0.29-internal/jdk.tools.jaotc.Main.main(Main.java:89)
];
 stderr: []
 exitValue = 1

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/pull/3052#issuecomment-3007585533