CI: Cleanup Windows build (#7873)

The Windows build never actually used ccache; the '.ccache' directory
only ever held the win_flex_bison install, and cmake/MSVC did no compiler
caching. Clean this up:

- Drop the CCACHE_* environment variables from the job (meaningless here).
- Store win_flex_bison in a dedicated 'win_flex_bison' directory instead of
  the misleadingly named '.ccache', and cache just that (static key, as it
  is a fixed third-party tool).
- Set WIN_FLEX_BISON inside ci-win-compile.ps1 as an absolute path, rather
  than in the workflow, making the script self-contained.
- Use the runner's processor count for build parallelism instead of a fixed
  '-j 3', in both ci-win-compile.ps1 and ci-win-test.ps1.
- Remove the verilator-win.zip archive and upload steps; nothing consumes
  that artifact.
- Build Verilator with the Ninja generator from an MSVC developer shell
  instead of MSBuild. MSBuild only parallelizes across projects, and
  Verilator is a single project, so it compiled serially; Ninja keeps all
  cores busy. Also compile with /Od: this job only checks that Verilator
  builds and can verilate an example, so an optimized binary is not needed
  and the otherwise-dominant optimizer time is wasted.
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Geza Lore
2026-07-05 19:15:09 +01:00
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@@ -88,32 +88,19 @@ jobs:
build-windows:
name: Build | windows-2025-vs2026 | msvc
runs-on: windows-2025-vs2026
env:
CCACHE_COMPRESS: 1
CCACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/.ccache
CCACHE_LIMIT_MULTIPLE: 0.95
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7
with:
path: repo
- name: Cache $CCACHE_DIR
- name: Cache win_flex_bison
uses: actions/cache@55cc8345863c7cc4c66a329aec7e433d2d1c52a9 # v5
with:
path: ${{ env.CCACHE_DIR }}
key: msbuild-msvc-cmake
path: ${{ github.workspace }}/win_flex_bison
key: win_flex_bison
- name: compile
env:
WIN_FLEX_BISON: ${{ github.workspace }}/.ccache
run: ./ci/ci-win-compile.ps1
- name: test build
run: ./ci/ci-win-test.ps1
- name: Zip up repository
run: Compress-Archive -LiteralPath install -DestinationPath verilator.zip
- name: Upload zip archive
uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a # v7
with:
path: ${{ github.workspace }}/repo/verilator.zip
name: verilator-win.zip
test-2604-gcc:
name: Test | 26.04 | gcc | ${{ matrix.suite }}