Previously, Windows toolchains and related dependencies (SDKs, etc)
were installed on Windows builders by people responsible for
maintaining those machines.
This commit takes a step in a new direction. We introduce a
script (complete with documentation) that can produce a zip
archive (or any archive format if people want to implement
support) of the toolchain files. Basically, you install
Visual Studio 2015 Community, run the script, and produce
a self-contained zip file containing everything from Microsoft
you need to build Firefox. With a copy of this archive and
an installation of MozillaBuild, it is possible to build
Firefox on a fresh Windows installation. No time-consuming
Visual Studio installation needed.
The goal is to upload these archives to tooltool and have
our Windows builders download and extract them at run-time.
At which time, we can remove all the other Visual Studio
and SDK files from builders because they don't need to be
baked into the image.
We may find tooltool's caching isn't good enough and we have
to more aggressively caching the standalone toolchain files.
But that is a problem for another day. Whatever happens,
we'll need the functionality in this script to produce
a self-contained archive of the toolchain.
There are certainly files in the produced archive that aren't
needed. I think perfect is the enemy of done and we can prune
the archive over time, if wanted.
MozReview-Commit-ID: EckEK1a6vA3
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The Files sub-context allows us to attach metadata to files based on
pattern matching rules.
Patterns are matched against files in a last-write-wins fashion.
The sub-context defines the BUG_COMPONENT variable, which is a 2-tuple
(actually a named tuple) defining the Bugzilla product and component for
files. There are no consumers yet. But an eventual use case will be to
suggest a bug component for a patch/commit. Another will be to
automatically suggest a bug component for a failing test.
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A new moz.build-based build backend for Visual Studio project generation
has been added. The build backend can be used by specifying
'VisualStudio' to the backend option of config.status or mach
build-backend. e.g. `mach build-backend -b VisualStudio`.
Usage docs have been added to build/docs/visualstudio.rst.
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Nick Alexander
Gregory Szorc
Mike Hommey
Benoit Girard