ci: use ninja in Windows builds

.ci/compile.sh

@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ if [[ $RUNNER_OS == macOS ]]; then
     flags+=(-DCPACK_COMMAND_HDIUTIL="$hdiutil_script")
   fi
 
-elif [[ $RUNNER_OS == Windows ]]; then
+elif [[ $RUNNER_OS == Windows ]] && [[ "$CMAKE_GENERATOR" != *Ninja* ]]; then
   # Enable MTT, see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/improved-parallelism-in-msbuild/
   # and https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/cpp-build-throughput-investigation-and-tune-up/#multitooltask-mtt
   buildflags+=(-- -p:UseMultiToolTask=true -p:EnableClServerMode=true)

.github/workflows/desktop-build.yml

@@ -320,8 +320,7 @@ jobs:
             qt_version: 6.10.*
             qt_arch: win64_msvc2022_64
             qt_modules: qtimageformats qtmultimedia qtwebsockets
-            cmake_generator: "Visual Studio 17 2022"
-            cmake_generator_platform: x64
+            cmake_generator: Ninja
 
     name: ${{matrix.os}} ${{matrix.target}}${{ matrix.soc == 'Intel' && ' Intel' || '' }}${{ matrix.type == 'Debug' && ' Debug' || '' }}
     needs: configure
@@ -338,12 +337,10 @@ jobs:
         with:
           submodules: recursive
 
-      - name: Add msbuild to PATH
+      # Set relevant environment variables for MSVC, used to ensure ninja + MSVC build correctly together
+      - name: Setup MSVC (Windows)
         if: matrix.os == 'Windows'
-        id: add-msbuild
-        uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v2
-        with:
-          msbuild-architecture: x64
+        uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1.13.0
 
       - name: Setup ccache
         if: matrix.use_ccache == 1 && matrix.os == 'macOS'
@@ -429,7 +426,6 @@ jobs:
           MAKE_PACKAGE: '${{matrix.make_package}}'
           PACKAGE_SUFFIX: '${{matrix.package_suffix}}'
           CMAKE_GENERATOR: ${{matrix.cmake_generator}}
-          CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM: ${{matrix.cmake_generator_platform}}
           USE_CCACHE: ${{matrix.use_ccache}}
           VCPKG_DISABLE_METRICS: 1
           VCPKG_BINARY_SOURCES: 'clear;files,${{ steps.vcpkg-cache.outputs.path }},readwrite'
@@ -516,9 +512,9 @@ jobs:
         with:
           name: ${{steps.build.outputs.name}}-PDBs
           path: |
-            build/cockatrice/Release/*.pdb
-            build/oracle/Release/*.pdb
-            build/servatrice/Release/*.pdb
+            build/cockatrice/**/*.pdb
+            build/oracle/**/*.pdb
+            build/servatrice/**/*.pdb
           if-no-files-found: error
 
       - name: Upload to release

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ endif()
 
 # Define proper compilation flags
 if(MSVC)
-  # Disable Warning C4251, C++20 compatibility, Multi-threaded Builds, Warn Detection, Unwind Semantics, Debug Symbols
-  set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "/wd4251 /Zc:__cplusplus /std:c++20 /permissive- /W4 /MP /EHsc /Zi")
+  # Disable Warning C4251, C++20 compatibility, Multi-threaded Builds, Warn Detection, Unwind Semantics, Debug Symbols, Force Synchronous PDB writes
+  set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "/wd4251 /Zc:__cplusplus /std:c++20 /permissive- /W4 /MP /EHsc /Zi /FS")
   # Visual Studio: Maximum Optimization, Multi-threaded DLL
   set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE "/Ox /MD")
   # Visual Studio: No Optimization, Multi-threaded Debug DLL
@@ -311,7 +311,9 @@ if(UNIX)
   endif()
 elseif(WIN32)
   set(CPACK_GENERATOR NSIS ${CPACK_GENERATOR})
-  if("${CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM}" MATCHES "(x64)")
+  # This a generator-agnostic way to determine if the build is 64-bit or 32-bit.
+  # See https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P.html
+  if(CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P EQUAL 8)
     set(TRICE_IS_64_BIT 1)
   else()
     set(TRICE_IS_64_BIT 0)

cockatrice/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ if(WIN32)
   set(qtconf_dest_dir .)
 
   install(
-    DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}/${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}/"
+    DIRECTORY "$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:cockatrice>/"
     DESTINATION ./
     FILES_MATCHING
     PATTERN "*.dll"

oracle/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ if(WIN32)
   list(APPEND libSearchDirs ${QT_LIBRARY_DIR})
 
   install(
-    DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}/${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}/"
+    DIRECTORY "$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:oracle>/"
     DESTINATION ./
     FILES_MATCHING
     PATTERN "*.dll"

servatrice/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ if(WIN32)
   set(qtconf_dest_dir .)
 
   install(
-    DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}/${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}/"
+    DIRECTORY "$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:servatrice>/"
     DESTINATION ./
     FILES_MATCHING
     PATTERN "*.dll"