vcpkg/scripts/azure-pipelines/osx

vcpkg-eg-mac VMs

Table of Contents

• vcpkg-eg-mac VMs
  • Table of Contents
  • Basic Usage
  • Setting up a new macOS machine

Basic Usage

The simplest usage, and one which should be used for when spinning up new VMs, and when restarting old ones, is a simple:

$ cd ~/vagrant/vcpkg-eg-mac
$ vagrant up

Any modifications to the machines should be made in configuration/VagrantFile and Setup-VagrantMachines.ps1, and make sure to push any changes!

Setting up a new macOS machine

Before anything else, one must download brew and powershell.

$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
$ brew cask install powershell

Then, we need to download the vcpkg repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg

And now all we need to do is set it up! Replace XX with the number of the virtual machine. Generally, that should be the same as the number for the physical machine; i.e., vcpkgmm-04 will have vcpkg-eg-mac-04.

$ cd vcpkg/scripts/azure-pipelines/osx
$ ./Install-Prerequisites.ps1 -Force
  # NOTE: you may get an error about CoreCLR; see the following paragraph if you do
$ ./Setup-VagrantMachines.ps1 XX \
  -Pat '<get this from azure>' \
  -ArchivesUsername '<get this from the archives share>' \
  -ArchivesAccessKey '<get this from the archives share>' \
  -ArchivesUrn '<something>.file.core.windows.net' \
  -ArchivesShare 'archives'
$ cd ~/vagrant/vcpkg-eg-mac
$ vagrant up

If you see the following error:

Failed to initialize CoreCLR, HRESULT: 0x8007001F

You have to reboot the machine; run

$ sudo shutdown -r now

and wait for the machine to start back up. Then, start again from Install-Prerequisites.ps1.

Creating a new Vagrant box

Whenever we want to install updated versions of the command line tools, or of macOS, we need to create a new vagrant box. This is pretty easy, but the results of the creation are not public, since we're concerned about licensing. However, if you're sure you're following Apple's licensing, you can set up your own vagrant boxes that are the same as ours by doing the following:

You'll need some prerequisites:

• macinbox - installable via sudo gem install macinbox
• vagrant - found at https://www.vagrantup.com/
• VirtualBox - found at https://www.virtualbox.org/
• A macOS installer application - you can get this from the App Store (although I believe only the latest is available)
• An Xcode Command Line Tools installer - you can get this from Apple's developer website, although you'll need to sign in first: https://developer.apple.com/downloads

First, you'll need to create a base box; this is where you determine what version of macOS is installed.

> sudo macinbox \
	--box-format virtualbox \
	--name macos-ci-base \
	--installer <path to macOS installer> \
	--no-gui

Once you've done that, create a Vagrantfile that looks like the following:

Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|
  config.vm.box = 'macos-ci-base'
	config.vm.boot_timeout = 600
end

then, run the following in that vagrant directory:

$ vagrant up
$ vagrant scp <path to Command Line Tools for Xcode installer> :clt.dmg
$ vagrant ssh -c 'hdiutil attach clt.dmg -mountpoint /Volumes/setup-installer'
$ vagrant ssh -c 'sudo installer -pkg "/Volumes/setup-installer/Command Line Tools.pkg" -target /'
$ vagrant ssh -c 'hdiutil detach /Volumes/setup-installer'
$ vagrant ssh -c '/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"'
$ vagrant package

This will create a package.box, which is the box file for the base VM. Then, you can vagrant box add <package.box> --name <name for the box>, and you'll have the base vcpkg box added for purposes of Setup-VagrantMachines.ps1!

Once you've created the base box, if you're making it the new base box for the CI, upload it to the vcpkgvagrant storage account, to the vagrant-boxes share. Then, add the metadata about the box (the name and version) to the JSON file there. Once you've done that, add the software versions below.

VM Software Versions

• 2020-09-17:
  • macOS: 10.15.6
  • Xcode CLTs: 12