On 2025-11-20 at 19:52:23, Ezekiel Newren wrote:
> Checkout my retrospective review [1]. Basically if windows + msvc ->
> <crate>.lib else lib<crate>.a, but it was coded as just if windows ->
> ...
> 
> In the github ci these are the only windows combos that are tested.
> "win build" is windows + gnu + Makefile
> "win+Meson build" windows + msvc + Meson

So I don't think that fixes the build[0] with this patch:

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From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:52:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] WIP: try fixing CI

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
---
 Makefile           | 2 +-
 src/cargo-meson.sh | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b05709c5e9..8bdb05e535 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ else
 RUST_TARGET_DIR = target/release
 endif
 
-ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows)
+ifdef MSVC
 RUST_LIB = $(RUST_TARGET_DIR)/gitcore.lib
 else
 RUST_LIB = $(RUST_TARGET_DIR)/libgitcore.a
diff --git a/src/cargo-meson.sh b/src/cargo-meson.sh
index 3998db0435..80c10b22cf 100755
--- a/src/cargo-meson.sh
+++ b/src/cargo-meson.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ then
 fi
 
 case "$(cargo -vV | sed -s 's/^host: \(.*\)$/\1/')" in
-	*-windows-*)
+	*-windows-msvc*)
 		LIBNAME=gitcore.lib;;
 	*)
 		LIBNAME=libgitcore.a;;
-- 
2.51.0.338.gd7d06c2dae8
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[0] https://github.com/bk2204/git/actions/runs/19553883891/job/55991786359
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brian m. carlson (they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA