I just (finally) got a Windows GraalVM native-image CI pipeline working on another project. Here's the GitHub Actions workflow: https://github.com/cap10morgan/opawssm/blob/843d64ff02b6e38851b1c7118b867d916f1ac1da/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L31

Want me to try converting that to a CircleCI config for babashka?

No thanks, we're good with Appveyor

ah, cool. wasn't sure if you were still looking for that. I saw some old comments you'd left in some places I was looking too. 🙂

The most friction in Windows + clojure CI comes from powershell issues. If you use deps.exe or bb clojure it's likely easier. @lee can confirm this with a recent build

You don't need to have a separate clojure CLI install using that

yeah, that was the first thing I got working locally

Yup!

the scoop clojure cmd-clj and cmd-clojure shims seem to work too (from cmd.exe so you can setup the native-image env)

Yeah, but then you'd have to install scoop first :)

yep!

I wonder if the Clojure core team has thought of adopting deps.clj as its official launcher for Windows?

I was originally planning to use it to install some other things too. but might revisit since I didn't in the end.

On Github Actions + Windows you could just use setup-graalvm from the official graalvm repo + bb clojure and have thing compiling in a few minutes

I found I still needed to install MS build tools

The setup graalvm tool doesn't do that for you?

Yeah I’d been using deps.exe in the past, but since I have bb installed on every CI env I use, I’ll start using that.

doesn't seem to, unless I did something wrong (always a possibility)

FWIW, I don't like launching native-image from tools build (JVM) since I like to give native-image as much memory as I possibly can - this gives faster compile times

@cap10morgan fwiw, here’s https://github.com/clj-commons/rewrite-clj/blob/main/.github/workflows/native-image-test.yml#L36-L42

From the setup-graalvm action: • sets up Windows environments with build tools using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/building-on-the-command-line

hmm... I'll have to mess around w/ it some more. kept getting the "can't find cl.exe" error

Hmmm… you sure you are not using maybe DeLaGuardo/setup-graalvm instead of graalvm/setup-graalvm?

I might have been before. I'm using the official one now.

yep, it can find cl.exe now w/o me installing it. cool, thanks for pointing that out!

always love deleting a bunch of code 🙂

@cap10morgan FWIW It seems your tool has only deps that can run directly with bb, except aws-api, but this port now runs directly in bb: https://github.com/grzm/awyeah-api :)

Yeah I started with that but had trouble with it under GraalVM

But it did work under bb when I was using that! :)

Hmm, what was the problem with graalvm? @grzm might want to know

I'd have to plug it back in and give it another try. Some dynamic loading stuff IIRC

Oh, dynamic loading... yeah that should probably be avoided altogether, since that blows up the image.

See https://github.com/borkdude/dynaload

Yeah there's some happening inside the cognitect lib that I found instructions for avoiding. I tried applying those instructions to awyeah but couldn't quite get it to work.

Right, the aws-pod might have some of that too, not sure

@cap10morgan Please do share when you get a chance. I’d definitely like to know.