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Let's use AppVeyor
– Introduction to CI for Windows –
VimConf 2015
2015-11-21 K.Takata

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Profile
● Name: K.Takata
● Twitter: @k_takata
● GitHub: k-takata
● Bitbucket: k_takata
● Web: http://homepage3.nifty.com/k-takata/
● Maintainer of Onigmo (The regex engine of Ruby 2.0 and later)
● Author of bregonig.dll (Regex DLL used by Sakura Editor, etc.)
● About 130 patches was merged into Vim in three years (since
7.3.668).
K.T
Now on sale!

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What is AppVeyor?
● Most of you may have use CI.
– Travis CI is one of the most popular CI service.
● Supports Linux and Mac OSX,
but does not support Windows.

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Installed Software
● OS: Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
● Visual Studio: 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
● Windows SDK: 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, 8.1, WDK 7.1.0
● Languages: Go, Java, Ruby, Python, etc.
● GCC: MinGW, Cygwin, MSYS2 (MinGW-w64)
● Tools: 7-Zip, Git, appveyor command, etc.
See: http://www.appveyor.com/docs/installed-software

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Case 1: Vim
● The official repository of Vim was moved to
GitHub this summer. https://github.com/vim/vim
● AppVeyor is enabled since Vim 7.4.900.
● Based on vim-jp/vim-ci
– Written by @cd01, @crazymaster and @k-takata

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Case 1: Vim (contd.)
● VC10: build and test
● MinGW: N/A
● MSYS2: N/A
● Cygwin: N/A
Contribution is welcome. (maybe)
Vim uses the following compiler on AppVeyor:

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Case 2: vimproc
● https://github.com/Shougo/vimproc.vim
AppVeyor support is written by @thinca and @k-takata
● VC10 32/64-bit: build, test and deploy
– When a tag is pushed, DLL is automatically released.
– vim-themis is used for testing.
● MinGW 32-bit: build and test
● MSYS2 64-bit: build and test
● Cygwin: build only

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Case 3: universal-ctags
● Fork of exuberant-ctags.
https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags
● VC10 (msbuild): build only
● VC10 32/64-bit (nmake): build only
● MinGW 32-bit: build only
● MSYS2 64-bit: build (using autotools) and test
● Cygwin: build and test

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Problems (1)
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./configure fails on Cygwin and MSYS2

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Problem (1) (contd.)
● Maybe caused by redirection system on
AppVeyor.
● Workaround: just comment out the line
E.g.
> bash -lc "autoreconf -vfi"
> perl -i".bak" -pe "s/^test -n ".DJDIR"/#$&/" configure
> bash -lc "./configure --enable-iconv && make"

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Problem (2)
● Vim on Cygwin/MSYS2 doesn't work at all.
No error messages! No outputs!
● Currently, NO workaround.
Please HELP!!

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Enjoy Vimming!