atlbase.h missing overnight

[sodul]

We have a CI pipeline that worked yesterday on a private repository that has had no commits in weeks.

As of about 16hs ago we now get:

fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'atlbase.h': No such file or directory

Here is what our workflow file looks like:

name: CI
on:
  push:
    branches: [ 'main', 'releases/**' ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ '**' ]
  workflow_dispatch:
  # Allow manual trigger for debugging the workflow.
jobs:
  CI-checks:
    runs-on: windows-2022
    steps:
      - name: Disable git autocrlf
        run: git config --global core.autocrlf false

      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      # The msbuild version is dictated by the Windows image provided by GitHub.
      - uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v2
      - uses: darenm/Setup-VSTest@v1.2
      - name: Build and test with Sonar Wrapper
        shell: cmd
        run: test-all.cmd

Since there was no recent changes to our repository there must be some changes to the VisualStudio installation that made altbase.h no longer available when compiling.

[sodul]

Apparently caused by: actions/runner-images#9701

A workaround is to add this to our workflow files, but that add an extra 5-6 minutes to the runs.

    steps:
      - name: Delete components
        run: |
                Set-Location "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\"
                $InstallPath = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise"
                $componentsToRemove= @(
                    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATL"
                )
                [string]$workloadArgs = $componentsToRemove | ForEach-Object {" --remove " +  $_}
                $Arguments = ('/c', "vs_installer.exe", 'modify', '--installPath', "`"$InstallPath`"",$workloadArgs, '--quiet', '--norestart', '--nocache')
                # should be run twice
                $process = Start-Process -FilePath cmd.exe -ArgumentList $Arguments -Wait -PassThru -WindowStyle Hidden
                $process = Start-Process -FilePath cmd.exe -ArgumentList $Arguments -Wait -PassThru -WindowStyle Hidden
      
      - name: Install components
        run: |
                Set-Location "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\"
                $InstallPath = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise"
                $componentsToRemove= @(
                  "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.v141.ATL"
                  "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.14.29.16.11.ATL"
                )
                [string]$workloadArgs = $componentsToRemove | ForEach-Object {" --add " +  $_}
                $Arguments = ('/c', "vs_installer.exe", 'modify', '--installPath', "`"$InstallPath`"",$workloadArgs, '--quiet', '--norestart', '--nocache')
                # should be run twice
                $process = Start-Process -FilePath cmd.exe -ArgumentList $Arguments -Wait -PassThru -WindowStyle Hidden
                $process = Start-Process -FilePath cmd.exe -ArgumentList $Arguments -Wait -PassThru -WindowStyle Hidden

[timheuer]

Hi @sodul I'm sorry but this issue looks unrelated to this setup-msbuild action. As you noted it looks like impacted by something in actions/runner-images and I recommend you open an issue there.