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Can I use ReactOS as a CI runner in gitlab to build a Windows installer?

I'm currently using msys2 as the build environment-- does that run reliably on ReactOS? If not, is there another free build environment that runs reliably on ReactOS?

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I don’t know about ReactOS but you can use Docker with wine and WiX to build MSIs without a Windows server: https://github.com/suchja/wix-toolset

Off topic, but thank you, I have an interview on friday and the have WiX in their nice to have list, thought it was about the websitebuilder(didn't do to much research yet), which would be odd since its a C# job and well i never had to build installers. Naming things is hard

What's the environment that my `make` command runs in? Windows or gnu/linux? "wine" makes me think it's a Windows environment which is not what I want.

msys2 greatly simplifies cross-platform building for me because it just looks like a linux build environment (and has arch's pacman for deps like git and stuff)

I always wondered why don't commercial CIs use ReactOS for build/test of windows software. I just assumed it wasn't stable enough yet?

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