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lukka/get-cmake@latest re-fetched and re-extracted CMake + Ninja on
every single Windows CI run. Its own cache (routed through this
act_runner's built-in cache server) reported "Cloud cache miss" on
every run, even one immediately after a run that logged a successful
save under the exact same key -- an incompatibility between its
bundled cache client and this act_runner's cache-server implementation,
not a config gap. Separately and more importantly: the archive
extraction step alone measured ~7.5 minutes for a 45MB zip on this VM,
consistent with Defender real-time scanning rather than raw disk I/O.
Together this was the dominant cost of every Windows CI run.

CMake 4.4.2 and Ninja 1.12.1 are now installed once, directly on the
winvm-builder VM's system PATH (C:\BuildTools\cmake, C:\BuildTools\
ninja), sidestepping the third-party action's cache entirely rather
than debugging its internals further. Both Windows jobs now just
verify cmake/ninja are present and fail loudly if not, instead of
silently falling back to a slow reinstall. Full detail, including how
to redo this if the VM is ever rebuilt, is in README's new "Windows
runner: persistent build tools" section -- this is VM state, not
something git reproduces.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RL8abRmgFXkVASHkkqiJbE
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2026-09-07 09:07:23 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent 18610bd9dc
commit e050b81d6c
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@@ -144,8 +144,16 @@ jobs:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Install build dependencies
uses: lukka/get-cmake@latest
- name: Verify build dependencies
# See build.yml's Windows job for why this is no longer
# lukka/get-cmake@latest -- CMake and Ninja are installed once,
# directly on winvm-builder's system PATH; this just fails loudly
# if that ever stops being true.
shell: powershell
run: |
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
cmake --version
ninja --version
- name: Configure, build, test, verify
# Windows PowerShell (powershell.exe), not PowerShell Core (pwsh) --