Experiencing build crashes after upgrade to msvc toolset 14.40

[jonaski]

Description

Recently, toolset 14.3 is gone, and I've now set toolset 14.40, but I'm encountering several crashes, icu4c and boost builds crash.

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

I can't find "Set up job" anywhere.

Is it regression?

It did not happen with toolset 14.3

Expected behavior

Runs without crashes.

Actual behavior

When building icu4c in Release, the genrb command crashes:

 NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"D:\a\icu-msvc-test-build\icu-msvc-test-build\build\icu\source\extra\uconv\..\..\..\bin64\genrb" -s resources -d resources root.txt' : return code '0xc0000005' [D:\a\icu-msvc-test-build\icu-msvc-test-build\build\icu\source\extra\uconv\uconv.vcxproj]
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(254,5): error MSB8066: Custom build for 'makedata.mak' exited with code 2. [D:\a\icu-msvc-test-build\icu-msvc-test-build\build\icu\source\extra\uconv\uconv.vcxproj]

See https://github.com/jonaski/icu-msvc-test-build/actions/runs/9430271887/job/25977616191

With boost, the b2 command crashes in both release and debug:

Run b2.exe -a -q -j 4 -d1 --ignore-site-config --stagedir="stage" --layout="tagged" --without-mpi --without-python --prefix="c:/strawberry_msvc_x86_64_release" --exec-prefix="c:/strawberry_msvc_x86_64_release\bin" --libdir="c:/strawberry_msvc_x86_64_release\lib" --includedir="c:/strawberry_msvc_x86_64_release\include" toolset=msvc architecture=x86 link=shared runtime-link=shared threadapi=win32 threading=multi variant=release install
  
Error: Process completed with exit code -1073741819.

See https://github.com/jonaski/boost-msvc-test-build/actions/runs/9430284329/job/25977641576

These issues only happens in GitHub actions, on a Windows PC with update-to-date Visual Studio 2022 it does not occur.

Repro steps

https://github.com/jonaski/icu-msvc-test-build/blob/master/.github/workflows/icu4c.yaml

[jonaski]

If protobuf is compiled in release, protoc.exe also crashes in the CI, if I download the binary, it works fine on a Windows PC.

[shamil-mubarakshin]

Hey @jonaski,
Windows 2022 20240603.1 release contained a number of issues. With #10014 and #10010 fixes both boosted and unboosted workflows completed successfully during my test runs.

We will start Image rollout this week

[jonaski]

Works now, thanks for the fast fix.