If you have access to a mingw environment on Windows, it would be great if you could figure out that build issue.

If you have access to a mingw environment on Windows, it would be great if you could figure out that build issue.

I'll see what I can do.

Are you certain that the error displayed in the logs has something to do with the changes made in this PR?

The specific error is this, which seems to come from the https://github.com/egor-tensin/setup-mingw script:

 Remove-Item: D:\a\_temp\14562f07-631d-4e82-afd4-223d04e7d198.ps1:140
Line |
 140 |          Remove-Item (Join-Path $mingw_lib 'libpthread.dll.a')
     |          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | Cannot find path
     | 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\mingw\tools\install\mingw64\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libpthread.dll.a' because it
     | does not exist.

I installed mingw, and built ixwebsocket based on the workflow in this file: https://github.com/machinezone/IXWebSocket/actions/runs/6873411557/workflow?pr=493

No errors at all. Reverting the changes I made in this PR also resulted in the same output with no errors.

Also, the cmake command in that workflow doesn't enable SSL, so the changes I made are not part of the build.

Yes your PR did not break this, it was broken before.

I was asking if you'd be interested in helping fix the mingw build.

Yes your PR did not break this, it was broken before.

I was asking if you'd be interested in helping fix the mingw build.

My misunderstanding, but sure, I'll take a more detailed look into what may be causing that specific issue when I can.

The issue is in setup-mingw, and it seems that this has already been reported, and a fix provided, but has not been merged in:

egor-tensin/setup-mingw#15
egor-tensin/setup-mingw#16

If you fork that repository, apply the fix, and map your workflow link to your own version, then it should work fine.

If you care and would like to make a PR for that it would be very much appreciated.

I can't create a PR unless you create a fork of this repository first:
https://github.com/egor-tensin/setup-mingw

Once that repository is under the"machinezone" github account, then it's simply a matter of merging this commit with your version:
https://github.com/egor-tensin/setup-mingw/pull/16/files

Also, a PR would then be created against the IXWebSocket workflow file:
https://github.com/machinezone/IXWebSocket/blob/master/.github/workflows/unittest_windows_gcc.yml

Changing this line:
- uses: egor-tensin/[email protected]

to something like this:
- uses: machinezone/setup-mingw@your-patched-version

Thanks for the help, I applied the fix in my own fork and now gcc build works on windows.

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