Installer freezes in windows-2022 GitHub Action

[Brian Inglis]

On 2024-10-20 13:20, Michele Locati via Cygwin wrote:
> Il giorno dom 20 ott 2024 alle ore 19:57 Jon Turney
> <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> ha scritto:
>> You might like to try the semi-official action [1]
>> [1] https://github.com/cygwin/cygwin-install-action
> 
> Hi Jon,
> thanks for the tip!
> 
> I tried it, with this GitHub Action step:
> 
> -
>    name: Install Cygwin
>    uses: cygwin/cygwin-install-action@v4
>    timeout-minutes: 60
>    with:
>      packages: wget,file,make,unzip,dos2unix,mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core,mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++,mingw64-x86_64-headers,mingw64-x86_64-runtime
>      install-dir: C:\cygwin
>      site: https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
>      add-to-path: false
> 
> I have had the following failure 2 out of 4 times (see [1]):
> 
> Program 'setup.exe' failed to run: The specified executable is not a
> valid application for this OS platform.At
> D:\a\_temp\72ae83d2-faf5-4c1c-8e08-6720647559b7.ps1:63 char:1
> + & C:\setup.exe $args | Out-Default
> + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
> At D:\a\_temp\72ae83d2-faf5-4c1c-8e08-6720647559b7.ps1:63 char:1
> + & C:\setup.exe $args | Out-Default
> + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>      + CategoryInfo          : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [],
> ParentContainsErrorRecordException
>      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandFailed
> 
> So, it seems that semi-official action fails too, and not always
> exactly like I experienced (but at least the step now fails
> immediately with an error message, instead of freezing for hours).
> 
> [1] https://github.com/mlocati/gettext-iconv-windows/actions/runs/11428859634

Could newer Windows 11 builds require a a signed executable, or newer manifest 
GUID, version, urn asmv than Win 10:

windows-default-manifest:	usr/lib/default-manifest.o

In failing installs, could you check the GUIDs in ntdll.dll under the symbol 
SbSupportedOsList, referenced by a function called SbGetContextDetailsByVersion 
from:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68240304/whats-the-supportedos-guid-for-windows-11

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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