How to use Visual Studio toolchain?

[thbeu]

Thanks for this pretty useful build setup.

Is there any change to build with Visual Studio (2019) instead of the Clang toolchain. I tried master...thbeu:pdfium-binaries:build-md but did not succeed. Any help is appreciated. Thanks again.

[bblanchon]

Hi @thbeu,

I updated the Windows runner because it came with Python 3.7, and PDFium needs Python 3.9+ to build or it produces the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:/a/pdfium-binaries/pdfium-binaries/depot_tools/ninja.py", line 14, in <module>
    import gclient_paths
  File "D:\a\pdfium-binaries\pdfium-binaries\depot_tools\gclient_paths.py", line [24](https://github.com/bblanchon/pdfium-binaries/actions/runs/6452203565/job/17513883535#step:11:25), in <module>
    def FindGclientRoot(from_dir, filename='.gclient'):
  File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.7.9\x64\lib\functools.py", line 490, in lru_cache
    raise TypeError('Expected maxsize to be an integer or None')
TypeError: Expected maxsize to be an integer or None

If we manage to work around this error, we should be about to build with Visual Studio 2019.

BTW, the last build done with Visual Studio 2019 is 119.0.6043.0

Best regards,
Benoit

[thbeu]

Thanks for the fast reply and the hint about the recently switched runner from windows-2019 to windows-2022.

I finally could build 120.0.6097.0 with VS 2019 and /MD from my branch build-md, see master...thbeu:pdfium-binaries:build-md.