windows build fails randomly

[rconde01]

When running e build -v electron:dist I get:

[954/41113] C:\Users\ContainerAdministrator\.electron_build_tools\third_party\goma\gomacc.exe ..\..\third_party\llvm-build\Release+Asserts\bin\clang-cl.exe /nologo /showIncludes:user /winsysroot..\..\third_party\depot_tools\win_toolchain\vs_files\e146e01913 -DDCHECK_ALWAYS_ON=1 -DUSE_AURA=1 "-DCR_CLANG_REVISION=\"llvmorg-13-init-794-g83e2710e-1\"" -D_LIBCPP_ABI_UNSTABLE -D_LIBCPP_DISABLE_VISIBILITY_ANNOTATIONS -D_LIBCPP_ENABLE_NODISCARD -D_LIBCPP_HAS_NO_VENDOR_AVAILABILITY_ANNOTATIONS -D_LIBCPP_DEBUG=0 -D_LIBCPP_NO_AUTO_LINK -D__STD_C -D_CRT_RAND_S -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_ATL_NO_OPENGL -D_WINDOWS -DCERT_CHAIN_PARA_HAS_EXTRA_FIELDS 
-DPSAPI_VERSION=2 -DWIN32 -D_SECURE_ATL -DWINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_FAMILY_DESKTOP_APP -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DNOMINMAX -D_UNICODE -DUNICODE -DNTDDI_VERSION=NTDDI_WIN10_VB -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0A00 -DWINVER=0x0A00 -DNDEBUG -DNVALGRIND -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=0 -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE -I../.. -Igen -I../../third_party/libaom/source/config -I../../third_party/libaom/source/config/win/x64 -I../../third_party/libaom/source/libaom -msse2 -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -fcolor-diagnostics -fmerge-all-constants -fcrash-diagnostics-dir=../../tools/clang/crashreports -mllvm -instcombine-lower-dbg-declare=0 -Xclang -fno-experimental-new-pass-manager -fcomplete-member-pointers /Gy /FS /bigobj /utf-8 /Zc:twoPhase /Zc:sizedDealloc- /D__WRL_ENABLE_FUNCTION_STATICS__ -fmsc-version=1916 -m64 -msse3 /Brepro -Wno-builtin-macro-redefined -D__DATE__= -D__TIME__= -D__TIMESTAMP__= -Xclang -fdebug-compilation-dir -Xclang . -no-canonical-prefixes /O1 /Ob2 /Oy- /Zc:inline /Gw /Oi -gline-tables-only -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern /guard:cf,nochecks /MT -Xclang -add-plugin -Xclang find-bad-constructs -Wheader-hygiene -Wstring-conversion -Wtautological-overlap-compare /W3 /wd4800 /wd4267 /wd4996 -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-misleading-indentation /WX /wd4091 /wd4127 /wd4251 /wd4275 /wd4312 /wd4324 /wd4351 /wd4355 /wd4503 /wd4589 /wd4611 /wd4100 /wd4121 /wd4244 /wd4505 /wd4510 /wd4512 /wd4610 /wd4838 /wd4995 /wd4996 /wd4456 /wd4457 /wd4458 /wd4459 /wd4200 /wd4201 /wd4204 /wd4221 /wd4245 /wd4267 /wd4305 /wd4389 /wd4702 /wd4701 /wd4703 /wd4661 /wd4706 /wd4715 -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-c++11-narrowing -Wno-unneeded-internal-declaration -Wno-undefined-var-template -Wno-nonportable-include-path -Wno-psabi -Wno-ignored-pragma-optimize -Wno-implicit-int-float-conversion -Wno-final-dtor-non-final-class -Wno-builtin-assume-aligned-alignment -Wno-deprecated-copy -Wno-non-c-typedef-for-linkage -Wmax-tokens /TC -Wno-implicit-fallthrough /c ../../third_party/libaom/source/libaom/aom_dsp/x86/aom_asm_stubs.c /Foobj/third_party/libaom/libaom_intrinsics_sse2/aom_asm_stubs.obj /Fd"obj/third_party/libaom/libaom_intrinsics_sse2_c.pdb"
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
ERROR Error: Command failed: ninja.exe -v -j 200 electron:electron_dist_zip
    at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:690:11)
    at Object.execFileSync (node:child_process:709:15)
    at Object.depotExecFileSync [as execFileSync] (C:\Users\ContainerAdministrator\.electron_build_tools\src\utils\depot-tools.js:118:16)
    at runNinja (C:\Users\ContainerAdministrator\.electron_build_tools\src\e-build.js:78:9)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\ContainerAdministrator\.electron_build_tools\src\e-build.js:136:3)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1092:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1121:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:972:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:813:14)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:76:12)

If i run it again, it stops on some other target with the same error.

[rconde01]

• It appears if I do that a few times it gets past that issue...still running.
• Actually the first time i run it it just stops at Running "goma_ctl.py ensure_start" in C:\Users\ContainerAdministrator\.electron_build_tools\third_party\goma ...you need to ctrl+c and then restart before something happens

[rconde01]

FYI I had to restart it like 20 times...but it finally completed.

[andrewsml]

faced the same problem when building any version above v26 for Windows x64 platform, build fails randomly

v26.6.0 - highest version I manage to build
v27.1.0 - fails
v27.1.2 - fails
v28.0.0-beta.5 - fails

using standard building sequence:

git checkout tags/v27.1.2 -b v27.1.2
e sync
e build electron:dist

[hlevring]

Yeah, this seems to be a problem.

ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
ERROR Error: Command failed: ninja.exe -v -j 200 electron:electron_dist_zip
at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:690:11)
..

Setting up a batch script that tries to build over and over until finally succeed. Would be great to get this fixed.

@rconde01 did you ever find a proper solution?

[rconde01]

Unfortunately no.

[alexciarlillo]

I ran into this as well. One thing I noticed was that this seems to only happen when I run the build from Git Bash. If I run it from a regular windows cmd.exe prompt it finishes fine. Might be nothing, but thought I'd mention it in case it helps anyone.