guix: nsis (Windows installer creator) is broken upstream

fanquake commented at 1:52 pm on June 3, 2025: member

This will become a issue when we want to bump the time-machine next, and it’d be nicer if this is fixed and shipped upstream, rather than us having to work around the issue:

 0# guix --version
 1guix (GNU Guix) 4b9d14378fcc3d8dd4eea36b541fe87e198fd7b8
 2
 3# guix build --no-substitutes nsis-x86_64
 4Source/Plugins.cpp:278:18:   required from ‘static void PrintPluginDirsHelper::print(const C&, const char*) [with C = std::map<std::__cxx11::basic_string<wchar_t>, std::__cxx11::basic_string<wchar_t>, STL::string_nocasecmpless<std::__cxx11::basic_string<wchar_t>, wchar_t> >]’
 5Source/Plugins.cpp:287:31:   required from here
 6/gnu/store/mrgjxwdy1l7s9m23bsrshdg3cb2q7nn3-gcc-cross-x86_64-w64-mingw32-14.2.0/include/c++/bits/stl_tree.h:768:15: error: non-constant condition for static assertion
 7  768 |               is_invocable_v<const _Compare&, const _Key&, const _Key&>,
 8      |               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 9scons: *** [build/urelease/makensis/build.o] Error 1
10scons: *** [build/urelease/makensis/Plugins.o] Error 1
11scons: building terminated because of errors.
12error: in phase 'build': uncaught exception:
13%exception #<&invoke-error program: "scons" arguments: ("-j" "16" "UNICODE=yes" "SKIPUTILS=MakeLangId,Makensisw,NSIS Menu,SubStart,zip2exe" "SKIPDOC=COPYING" "STRIP_CP=no" "PREFIX=/gnu/store/z5ng740nbqh0s1n9i69c8wls96drdqy7-nsis-x86_64-3.10" "TARGET_ARCH=amd64" "XGCC_W32_PREFIX=x86_64-w64-mingw32-" "PREFIX_PLUGINAPI_INC=/gnu/store/gwcmzcwbdfcqxiv99xmr2cv9s9nz79bf-mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-12.0.0/include/" "PREFIX_PLUGINAPI_LIB=/gnu/store/gwcmzcwbdfcqxiv99xmr2cv9s9nz79bf-mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-12.0.0/lib/" "makensis" "stubs" "plugins" "utils") exit-status: 2 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f> 
14phase `build' failed after 6.9 seconds
15command "scons" "-j" "16" "UNICODE=yes" "SKIPUTILS=MakeLangId,Makensisw,NSIS Menu,SubStart,zip2exe" "SKIPDOC=COPYING" "STRIP_CP=no" "PREFIX=/gnu/store/z5ng740nbqh0s1n9i69c8wls96drdqy7-nsis-x86_64-3.10" "TARGET_ARCH=amd64" "XGCC_W32_PREFIX=x86_64-w64-mingw32-" "PREFIX_PLUGINAPI_INC=/gnu/store/gwcmzcwbdfcqxiv99xmr2cv9s9nz79bf-mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-12.0.0/include/" "PREFIX_PLUGINAPI_LIB=/gnu/store/gwcmzcwbdfcqxiv99xmr2cv9s9nz79bf-mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-12.0.0/lib/" "makensis" "stubs" "plugins" "utils" failed with status 2
16build process 18 exited with status 256
17builder for `/gnu/store/slxnpxq0d350mbdb0iikgdqxdvr0c6c7-nsis-x86_64-3.10.drv' failed with exit code 1
18build of /gnu/store/slxnpxq0d350mbdb0iikgdqxdvr0c6c7-nsis-x86_64-3.10.drv failed
19View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/sl/xnpxq0d350mbdb0iikgdqxdvr0c6c7-nsis-x86_64-3.10.drv.gz'.
20guix build: error: build of `/gnu/store/slxnpxq0d350mbdb0iikgdqxdvr0c6c7-nsis-x86_64-3.10.drv' failed

See also: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/71548. Looks like this is still broken, but differently.

fanquake added the label Windows on Jun 3, 2025

fanquake added the label Build system on Jun 3, 2025

fanquake added the label Upstream on Jun 3, 2025

hebasto commented at 2:07 pm on June 3, 2025: member

Does it depend on the build machine architecture?

fanquake commented at 7:37 pm on June 3, 2025: member

It fails building on x86_64, aarch64 and with --system=riscv64-linux.

hebasto commented at 4:45 pm on June 11, 2025: member

This will become a issue when we want to bump the time-machine next…

We definitely want to bump it to resolve #30206.

hebasto commented at 7:28 am on June 13, 2025: member

This will become a issue when we want to bump the time-machine next, and it’d be nicer if this is fixed and shipped upstream, rather than us having to work around the issue…

I’ve bisected the issue down to https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/commit/d6780d79d936832e1b2ea9103eefecd0a838fb16.

guix: nsis (Windows installer creator) is broken upstream #32674