[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8253424: Add support for running pre-submit testing using GitHub Actions [v8]

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 10:59:00 GMT, Alex Kasko <akasko at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> I've done as much as I can here. I'm going to need to enlist someone to look at the Windows build. The additional builds & tests will need backports of bundle support.
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>> Maybe @akashche  or @stooke can help with the Windows GHA builds?
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> @jerboaa , I don't have experience with GitHub Actions, will look into them and report back.

> > Maybe @akashche or @stooke can help with the Windows GHA builds?
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> I've played around with trying to get JDK8u to compile on Windows in GH actions before, I think it mainly boils down to the version of Visual Studio on the executors. At Eclipse Adoptium we use Visual Studio 2013 but there is no easy way to install that onto the environment anymore (we used to use chocolatey but that package broke a while back). Happy to provide any help if required

Any help is very much welcome. I've never built on Windows before, so I have no idea of the requirements and issues there. What we have at present is pretty much what is in 11u-dev, other than I removed the `--with-msvc-toolset-version` option which 8u doesn't support. Maybe we have to either look into getting 8u to support newer versions of Windows or forego automated Windows testing. The former is risky, but preferable to the latter.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u-dev/pull/3