GitHub CI issues for Base64::Native on Windows about base64-native-raku

[dwarring]

I just kicked off a build. Appveyor project now seems to be here

Also made first attempt at a github testing build failing with missing nmake in LibraryMake dependency

[japhb]

Hmmm, so passed in AppVeyor for you at least, that's good. Perhaps something that Chocolatey provides that needs to be manually installed in a GitHub workflow? Ah yes, I can see choco install make followed by choco install mingw, that looks promising at least.

[dwarring]

Appveyor working at least, but still trying to figure out github windows testing. choco installs work on latest attempt , but still not picking up nmake.

[japhb]

(For reference, 8a0e5ef is because of this issue.)

[dwarring]

hopefully fixed in db39b0d. I changed the Build.pm6 to rety using gcc and make, if the initial Visual Tools flavored build fails on Windows.

[dwarring]

further refined after reading croservices/cro#105. Looks for make or gmake so hopefully also works with Strawberry Perl

[dwarring]

Hmm, LibraryMake dependency is still failing its tests and currently needs a forced install.

[dwarring]

I'm thinking of trying another approach.. Maybe the win dll could be built as a github build action and distributed rather than being built at installation.

[dwarring]

Have set-up a github workflow to build the DLL. Getting a github test failure on HTTP::Status, as aby-product of switching to Native::Compile which has this as a depdendency.

[dwarring]

Now working reasonably well on master, except for need to force install LibraryMake. I've raised a PR for this.

Runs a build workflow to update DLL (if needed), before running tests. DLL is distributed on Windows systems, so there's no need to build.