1018370 - Check if Mozbuild-instance can compile (Win)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Testing :: mozregression, defect)

Description

[Elbart]

The mozregression-site is currently suggesting to launch start-l10n.bat (respectively start-shell-l10n.bat in MozBuild 1.9) in order to use mozregression.

But if the users chooses to bisect revisions after bisecting inbound, the following build-error is happening:

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This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:1205: checking host system type
configure:1226: checking target system type
configure:1244: checking build system type
configure:1319: checking for mawk
configure:1319: checking for gawk
configure:1404: checking for python2.7
configure:1514: checking Python environment is Mozilla virtualenv
configure:1735: checking for perl5
configure:1735: checking for perl
configure:3153: checking for gcc
configure:3266: checking whether the C compiler (cl  ) works
configure:3282: cl -o conftest    conftest.c  1>&5
/c/Users/user/.moz-commitbuilder-cache/mozbuild-trunk/configure: line 3281: cl: command not found
configure: failed program was:

#line 3277 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

main(){return(0);}
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.
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It might be good to advice to use start-shell-msvc*.bat and check if the Mozbuild-instance is able to compile at all when launching a bisection.