diff --git a/.ci/compile.sh b/.ci/compile.sh
index 302972f30..6789b9817 100755
--- a/.ci/compile.sh
+++ b/.ci/compile.sh
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
# --dir
sets the name of the build dir, default is "build"
# --cmake-generator sets CMAKE_GENERATOR as used by cmake
# --target-macos-version sets the min os version - only used for macOS builds
-# uses env: BUILDTYPE MAKE_INSTALL MAKE_PACKAGE PACKAGE_TYPE PACKAGE_SUFFIX MAKE_SERVER MAKE_NO_CLIENT MAKE_TEST USE_CCACHE CCACHE_SIZE CCACHE_EVICTION_AGE BUILD_DIR CMAKE_GENERATOR TARGET_MACOS_VERSION MAKE_SANITIZE MAKE_COVERAGE VCPKG_TARGET_MACOS_VERSION
-# (correspond to args: --debug/--release --install --package --suffix --server --test --sanitize --coverage --ccache --dir )
+# --profile writes an MSBuild performance summary and binary log, Windows only
+# uses env: BUILDTYPE MAKE_INSTALL MAKE_PACKAGE PACKAGE_TYPE PACKAGE_SUFFIX MAKE_SERVER MAKE_NO_CLIENT MAKE_TEST USE_CCACHE CCACHE_SIZE CCACHE_EVICTION_AGE BUILD_DIR CMAKE_GENERATOR TARGET_MACOS_VERSION MAKE_SANITIZE MAKE_COVERAGE VCPKG_TARGET_MACOS_VERSION BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL BUILD_PROFILE
+# (correspond to args: --debug/--release --install --package --suffix --server --test --sanitize --coverage --ccache --dir --profile)
# exitcode: 1 for failure, 3 for invalid arguments
# Read arguments
@@ -115,6 +116,10 @@ while [[ $# != 0 ]]; do
export CMAKE_GENERATOR=$1
shift
;;
+ '--profile')
+ BUILD_PROFILE=1
+ shift
+ ;;
'--target-macos-version')
shift
if [[ $# == 0 ]]; then
@@ -209,6 +214,22 @@ function ccachestatsverbose() {
fi
}
+function cpuinfo() {
+ # The number of cores decides how much build parallelism is useful; the hosted
+ # runners are not all sized alike, so read it off the machine instead of assuming.
+ case "$RUNNER_OS" in
+ Windows)
+ echo "cores: ${NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS:-unknown}"
+ ;;
+ macOS)
+ echo "cores: $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)"
+ ;;
+ *)
+ echo "cores: $(nproc 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)"
+ ;;
+ esac
+}
+
# Compile
if [[ $RUNNER_OS == macOS ]]; then
# QTDIR is needed for macOS since we actually only use the cached thin Qt binaries instead of the install-qt-action,
@@ -293,9 +314,34 @@ if [[ $RUNNER_OS == macOS ]]; then
fi
elif [[ $RUNNER_OS == Windows ]]; then
- # Enable MTT, see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/improved-parallelism-in-msbuild/
- # and https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/cpp-build-throughput-investigation-and-tune-up/#multitooltask-mtt
- buildflags+=(-- -p:UseMultiToolTask=true -p:EnableClServerMode=true)
+ if [[ $CMAKE_GENERATOR == "Visual Studio"* ]]; then
+ # cmake only hands MSBuild a job count when one is asked for, and without it
+ # MSBuild builds a single node: one project at a time, whatever MTT does inside
+ # it. Ask for a node per core.
+ if [[ ! $BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL ]]; then
+ BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL="${NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS:-1}"
+ fi
+ buildflags+=(--parallel "$BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL")
+
+ # Enable MTT, see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/improved-parallelism-in-msbuild/
+ # and https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/cpp-build-throughput-investigation-and-tune-up/#multitooltask-mtt
+ # EnforceProcessCountAcrossBuilds makes the CL_MPCount ceiling apply across all
+ # the projects the nodes are building, instead of each node running its own
+ # cl.exe processes and /m and MTT multiplying into an oversubscribed machine.
+ buildflags+=(-- -p:UseMultiToolTask=true -p:EnableClServerMode=true -p:EnforceProcessCountAcrossBuilds=true -p:CL_MPCount="$BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL")
+ if [[ $BUILD_PROFILE ]]; then
+ # A performance summary says which projects and tasks cost what, the binary log
+ # keeps the full timeline; both are far too noisy to always produce. The files
+ # land next to the solution, i.e. in the build dir the workflow uploads. These
+ # join the MTT options above, which already carried the "--" separator.
+ buildflags+=("-flp:PerformanceSummary;v=q;LogFile=msbuild-perf.log" -bl:msbuild.binlog)
+ fi
+ else
+ # Ninja runs the compiler itself, so it neither takes the MSBuild switches
+ # (it rejects -p: options outright) nor a job count: it sizes its own pool
+ # for the cores it finds.
+ echo "ninja $(ninja --version)"
+ fi
fi
if [[ $USE_CCACHE ]]; then
@@ -311,10 +357,19 @@ cmake .. "${flags[@]}"
echo "::endgroup::"
echo "::group::Build project"
+cpuinfo
echo "Running cmake --build with flags: ${buildflags[*]}"
cmake --build . "${buildflags[@]}"
echo "::endgroup::"
+if [[ $BUILD_PROFILE && $RUNNER_OS == Windows && -f msbuild-perf.log ]]; then
+ # Repeat the summary in the job log so the numbers are readable without
+ # downloading the binary log, which is hundreds of megabytes.
+ echo "::group::MSBuild performance summary"
+ cat msbuild-perf.log
+ echo "::endgroup::"
+fi
+
if [[ $USE_CCACHE ]]; then
if [[ $CCACHE_EVICTION_AGE ]]; then
echo "::group::evict ccache files older than $CCACHE_EVICTION_AGE"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
index 75fbc59f1..18bb5e8ed 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ jobs:
# https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/reference/code-scanning/codeql/codeql-queries/actions-built-in-queries
queries: security-extended
dependency-caching: true
+ # A TRAP cache costs about 974 MiB per language here. On master that is worth
+ # paying, because the next push reuses it. On a pull request it is pure loss:
+ # the cache lands on refs/pull/N/merge, which no other run ever reads, so every
+ # new pull request leaves a dead 974 MiB entry behind.
+ trap-caching: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
- name: "[C++] Install dependencies"
if: matrix.language == 'cpp' && matrix.build-mode == 'manual'
diff --git a/.github/workflows/desktop-build.yml b/.github/workflows/desktop-build.yml
index 1ce51afaa..a379d1710 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/desktop-build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/desktop-build.yml
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ jobs:
continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.allow-failure == 'yes' }}
timeout-minutes: 70
env:
- CACHE: ${{ github.workspace }}/.cache/${{ matrix.distro }}${{ matrix.version }}${{ matrix.variant }} # directory for caching docker image and ccache
+ CACHE: ${{ github.workspace }}/.cache/${{ matrix.distro }}${{ matrix.version }}${{ matrix.variant }} # scratch dir for the container image build and throwaway ccache; nothing below is cached
CCACHE_EVICTION_AGE: 7d
CCACHE_SIZE: 600M # space of all repo is 10Gi: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/caching-dependencies-to-speed-up-workflows#usage-limits-and-eviction-policy
CMAKE_GENERATOR: 'Ninja'
@@ -179,13 +179,13 @@ jobs:
- name: "Checkout"
uses: actions/checkout@v7
- - name: "Restore compiler cache (ccache)"
- id: restore_ccache
- uses: actions/cache/restore@v6
- with:
- key: ccache-${{ matrix.distro }}${{ matrix.version }}${{ matrix.variant }}
- path: ${{ env.CACHE }}/.ccache
-
+ # Nothing on these legs is worth persisting. A compile here runs inside a
+ # container, so ccache measures a 0.00 to 1.85 percent hit rate against 49 to
+ # 50 percent on the macOS legs: persisting it spent a few hundred MiB per
+ # entry buying nothing. The build image is not an alternative: it runs 1.1 to
+ # 2.4 GB per leg on disk, about 5 to 6 GB of quota for all nine legs once
+ # compressed, so caching it would cost more than dropping the ccache frees.
+ # The old ccache- entries are never read again and expire on their own.
- name: "Build ${{ matrix.distro }} ${{ matrix.version }} Docker image"
shell: bash
run: source .ci/docker.sh --build
@@ -250,25 +250,6 @@ jobs:
RUN --server --release --package "$package" "${args[@]}"
- # Delete used cache to emulate a ccache update. See https://github.com/actions/cache/issues/342
- - name: "Delete remote compiler cache (ccache)"
- if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' && steps.restore_ccache.outputs.cache-hit
- continue-on-error: true
- env:
- CACHE_PRIMARY_KEY: ${{ steps.restore_ccache.outputs.cache-primary-key }}
- GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
- run: |
- if gh cache delete --repo "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY" "$CACHE_PRIMARY_KEY"; then
- echo "Cache deleted successfully"
- fi
-
- - name: "Save updated compiler cache (ccache)"
- if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
- uses: actions/cache/save@v6
- with:
- key: ${{ steps.restore_ccache.outputs.cache-primary-key }}
- path: ${{ env.CACHE }}/.ccache
-
- name: "Upload artifact"
id: upload_artifact
if: matrix.package != 'skip'
@@ -385,13 +366,20 @@ jobs:
target: 10
runner: windows-2025 # https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/windows/Windows2025-VS2026-Readme.md
- cmake_generator: "Visual Studio 18 2026"
- cmake_generator_platform: x64
+ # Ninja builds the whole dependency graph at once instead of one
+ # MSBuild node at a time, runs the compiler itself, and matches the
+ # Linux and macOS legs. Its median build phase measured ~17 min
+ # against ~21 for the Visual Studio generator (shared 4-core hosts
+ # swing either by minutes, so read medians, not single runs).
+ cmake_generator: Ninja
make_package: 1
package_suffix: "-Win10"
qt_version: 6.11.*
qt_modules: qtimageformats qtmultimedia qtshadertools qtwebsockets
type: Release
+ # Scope is named after the vs2026 toolchain, not the generator: the
+ # ABI hash covers cl.exe, which is identical, so this leg keeps
+ # restoring the warm archives. Renaming would orphan them.
vcpkg_scope: 'vcpkg/windows10-x64-vs2026/'
vcpkg_upload: 1 # only one leg per vcpkg_scope hands its archives over
@@ -487,6 +475,13 @@ jobs:
shell: bash
run: choco install nsis
+ # Ninja invokes cl.exe directly and needs the MSVC environment on PATH.
+ - name: "[Windows] Set up MSVC environment"
+ if: matrix.os == 'Windows'
+ uses: TheMrMilchmann/setup-msvc-dev@368ef7d1ee4d1171b31d4a7f67f4d954f903f5a9 # v4.1.0
+ with:
+ arch: x64
+
- name: "Setup vcpkg cache"
id: vcpkg-cache
uses: TAServers/vcpkg-cache@v3
@@ -521,7 +516,6 @@ jobs:
BUILDTYPE: '${{ matrix.type }}'
CCACHE_EVICTION_AGE: ${{ matrix.ccache_eviction_age }}
CMAKE_GENERATOR: ${{ matrix.cmake_generator }}
- CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM: ${{ matrix.cmake_generator_platform }}
DEVELOPER_DIR: '/Applications/Xcode_${{ matrix.xcode }}.app/Contents/Developer'
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }} # needed for vcpkg dependency graph updates, see VCPKG_FEATURE_FLAGS
MACOS_CERTIFICATE: ${{ secrets.PROD_MACOS_CERTIFICATE }}
@@ -690,6 +684,8 @@ jobs:
if-no-files-found: error
path: ${{ steps.build.outputs.path }}
+ # Ninja is single-config: binaries and their PDBs land directly in the
+ # target directories instead of a Release subdirectory.
- name: "[Windows] Upload PDBs (Program Databases)"
if: matrix.os == 'Windows' && github.ref_type != 'tag'
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
@@ -697,9 +693,9 @@ jobs:
if-no-files-found: error
name: ${{ steps.build.outputs.name }}-PDBs
path: |
- build/cockatrice/Release/*.pdb
- build/oracle/Release/*.pdb
- build/servatrice/Release/*.pdb
+ build/cockatrice/*.pdb
+ build/oracle/*.pdb
+ build/servatrice/*.pdb
- name: "Upload to release"
if: needs.configure.outputs.tag != null && matrix.make_package == '1'
diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker-release.yml b/.github/workflows/docker-release.yml
index 937386940..b7c08d341 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker-release.yml
@@ -89,7 +89,10 @@ jobs:
uses: docker/build-push-action@v7
with:
cache-from: type=gha,scope=${{ env.CACHE_SCOPE }}
- cache-to: ${{ case(github.ref == 'refs/heads/master', format('type=gha,mode=max,scope={0}', env.CACHE_SCOPE), '') }}
+ # mode=min exports only the layers of the final image. mode=max also exports
+ # every intermediate build layer, which for this multi-stage build is where the
+ # bulk of the 42 cached blobs came from, and none of it survives into the image.
+ cache-to: ${{ case(github.ref == 'refs/heads/master', format('type=gha,mode=min,scope={0}', env.CACHE_SCOPE), '') }}
context: .
platforms: ${{ matrix.platform }}
push: false
@@ -101,7 +104,7 @@ jobs:
uses: docker/build-push-action@v7
with:
cache-from: type=gha,scope=${{ env.CACHE_SCOPE }}
- cache-to: type=gha,mode=max,scope=${{ env.CACHE_SCOPE }}
+ cache-to: type=gha,mode=min,scope=${{ env.CACHE_SCOPE }}
context: .
labels: |
org.opencontainers.image.description=${{ env.OCI_DESCRIPTION }}