Trying to build windows docker image from here <https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/tree/master/...

# compose-desktop

[Igor Brishkoski]

Trying to build windows docker image from here https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/tree/master/ci/docker/windows but I’m getting this error. Any idea what’s going on?

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 > [1/19] FROM <http://mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/sdk:4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2019@sha256:2506aed9fa9adec7118a1058d117b5ff579fa0c74f9a47bece4008593a057e5d|mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/sdk:4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2019@sha256:2506aed9fa9adec7118a1058d117b5ff579fa0c74f9a47bece4008593a057e5d>:
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failed to solve with frontend dockerfile.v0: failed to build LLB: failed to register layer: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): link /Files/Program Files/common files/Microsoft Shared/Ink/en-US/micaut.dll.mui /Files/Program Files (x86)/common files/Microsoft Shared/ink/en-US/micaut.dll.mui: no such file or directory

[olonho]

we do not support building Docker images in CI folder, they are just for internal build processes, so unlikely we could help here

[Igor Brishkoski]

Ok, I assumed they were there so that we can build deb and msi/exe packages. I was able to build a deb with the linux image, wanted to try building an msi one too.

[olonho]

nope, you don’t need to use them to build MSI, plugin shall take care for that

[Igor Brishkoski]

I’m playing around with the examples/todo and trying to package the desktop module with ./gradlew :desktop:package and it only produces dmg binary, which led me to building the docker images. Even if I’m explicit ./gradlew :desktop:packageDeb nothing gets produces but the build is a success

[Igor Brishkoski]

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[olonho]

sure, to pack msi you need windows machine/vm

[Igor Brishkoski]

So I do need to use them to build msi 🙂

[olonho]

not really - it creates environment for building native parts of the project (Skiko library), creating MSI doesn’t need software installed there