Build Failure with GLFW on Github Actions Windows Runner

[ASchuberth]

Hello,

I am having an issue getting vcpkg to install GLFW library when doing a build with GitHub Actions. It runs perfectly fine on my local Windows machine, but fails to download GLFW on GitHub. The builds on Linux and Mac OSX are able to complete, just not for Windows.

I get the following error when vcpkg is trying to download GLFW:

                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2372613Z       CMake Error at scripts/cmake/vcpkg_download_distfile.cmake:32 (message):
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2386419Z       
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2387004Z       Failed to download file with error: 1
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2387891Z       If you are using a proxy, please check your proxy setting. Possible causes are:
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2388547Z       
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2389238Z       1. You are actually using an HTTP proxy, but setting HTTPS_PROXY variable
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2390277Z          to `https://address:port`. This is not correct, because `https://` prefix
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2391211Z          claims the proxy is an HTTPS proxy, while your proxy (v2ray, shadowsocksr
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2392146Z          , etc..) is an HTTP proxy. Try setting `http://address:port` to both
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2392860Z          HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY instead.
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2393339Z       
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2394137Z       2. If you are using Windows, vcpkg will automatically use your Windows IE Proxy Settings
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2395253Z          set by your proxy software. See https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg-tool/pull/77
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2396333Z          The value set by your proxy might be wrong, or have same `https://` prefix issue.
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2396905Z       
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2397401Z       3. Your proxy's remote server is out of service.
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2397849Z       
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2398580Z       If you've tried directly download the link, and believe this is not a temporary
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2399970Z       download server failure, please submit an issue at https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/issues
                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2400910Z       to report this upstream download server failure.
                                                           ...

                                                           2025-04-16T17:41:36.2467137Z       error: building glfw3:x64-windows failed with: BUILD_FAILED

See 9_Run CMake.txt for the full log.

vcpkg.json:
{ "dependencies": [ "glfw3", "glm", { "name": "imgui", "features": [ "glfw-binding", "vulkan-binding" ] }, "stb", "vulkan" ] }

Github Action Logs:
7_Restore from cache and setup vcpkg executable and data files..txt
8_Set preset name.txt
9_Run CMake.txt

I haven't found anything searching about this issue, so I thought I'd ask here.

[ASchuberth]

I had to add the following for the Linux build to get GLFW to install with vcpkg.

- name: Install Linux Dependencies
        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
        run: |

              sudo apt update
              sudo apt install libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libxext-dev libwayland-dev libxkbcommon-dev libglu1-mesa-dev pkg-config xorg-dev

Re-looking at the windows Run_CMake log, there is also this:

2025-04-16T17:40:55.7507474Z Installing 3/7 glfw3:x64-windows...
2025-04-16T17:40:55.7508205Z Building glfw3[core]:x64-windows...
2025-04-16T17:40:55.7509566Z -- Installing port from location: C:\Users\runneradmin\AppData\Local\vcpkg\registries\git-trees\308cd3ebdf6752e9d5eeb2933f33972c784aa8bd
2025-04-16T17:40:55.7799978Z -- Downloading https://github.com/glfw/glfw/archive/7482de6071d21db77a7236155da44c172a7f6c9e.tar.gz -> glfw-glfw-7482de6071d21db77a7236155da44c172a7f6c9e.tar.gz...
2025-04-16T17:40:56.3246699Z -- Extracting source D:/a/GitHubActionsTest/GitHubActionsTest/vcpkg/downloads/glfw-glfw-7482de6071d21db77a7236155da44c172a7f6c9e.tar.gz
2025-04-16T17:40:56.4836512Z -- Using source at D:/a/GitHubActionsTest/GitHubActionsTest/vcpkg/buildtrees/glfw3/src/172a7f6c9e-7678776297.clean
2025-04-16T17:40:56.4838211Z GLFW3 currently requires the following libraries from the system package manager:
2025-04-16T17:40:56.4838854Z     xinerama
2025-04-16T17:40:56.4839940Z     xcursor
2025-04-16T17:40:56.4840231Z     xorg
2025-04-16T17:40:56.4842162Z     libglu1-mesa
2025-04-16T17:40:56.4842564Z     pkg-config
2025-04-16T17:40:56.4842778Z 
2025-04-16T17:40:56.4843526Z These can be installed via brew install libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev xorg-dev libglu1-mesa-dev pkg-config

I am not sure why it is telling me to install unix packages with homebrew for a x64-windows package.

I found an issue here: #37075, so I tried installing the Windows 10 SDK on the Github runner, but still no luck.

Any idea on what I need to install on the runner?

[Osyotr]

This is unrelated to your original post, in which there was a (temporary) download failure. You don't need to install anything for x64-windows.

[ASchuberth]

I am still having this issue with GLFW3 failing to download. I am a little lost on how to fix this. Could this be an issue with run-vcpkg or is there something I can configure to get vcpkg to download GLFW3?