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dblanchette opened this issue May 23, 2025 · 1 comment
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Path issue with Windows runners #309

dblanchette opened this issue May 23, 2025 · 1 comment

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@dblanchette
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When running a Windows workflow using the official image you provide, we get errors running a Python shell:

Error: python: command not found

The runners launched with runs-on do not seem to have any tools on the path.

Are there extra steps needed?

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name: Combined Matrix Windows Test
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:

jobs:
  test:
    continue-on-error: true

    strategy:
      matrix:
        include:
          - name: Runs On
            runs-on: runs-on=${{ github.run_id }}/image=windows22-base-x64/family=m7i
          - name: GitHub Hosted
            runs-on: windows-latest

    name: ${{ matrix.name }}
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Windows Debug Info (before setup Python)
        uses: ./.github/actions/windows-debug-info

      - name: A Python shell (before setup Python)
        shell: python
        continue-on-error: true
        run: print('Hello Python world!')

      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: '3.x'

      - name: Windows Debug Info (after setup Python)
        uses: ./.github/actions/windows-debug-info

      - name: A Python shell (after)
        shell: python
        run: print('Hello Python world!')

With .github/actions/windows-debug-info/action.yaml

name: windows-debug-info

description: windows-debug-info
runs:
  using: composite

  steps:
    - name: Check current dir
      shell: powershell
      run: |
        $PWD
        dir .

    - name: Check env variables
      shell: powershell
      run: |
        echo $env:USERNAME
        echo $env:RUNS_ON_RUNNER_NAME
        Get-ChildItem Env: | Format-Table -Wrap -AutoSize

    - name: Check Users
      shell: powershell
      run: |
        Get-LocalUser | Format-Table -AutoSize Name,Enabled,PasswordLastSet

    - name: Check Python executables
      shell: powershell
      run: |
        foreach ($programName in @("python", "python3", "git", "pip", "pip3", "poetry")) {
          try {
            Get-Command $programName | Format-Table -AutoSize
            & $programName --version
          } catch {
            Write-Host "$programName is not found"
          }
        }

Results

Runs On

Upon checkout, we get a warning To create a local Git repository instead, add Git 2.18 or higher to the PATH

The Path before setup-python:

C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShellv1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\Amazon\cfn-bootstrap\;C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps

This seems really short

None of the listed executables are found:

Run foreach ($programName in @("python", "python3", "git", "pip", "pip3", "poetry")) { ...
python is not found
python3 is not found
git is not found
pip is not found
pip3 is not found
poetry is not found

setup-python does prepend the same as on our image:

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python313\Scripts;C:\actions-runner\_work\_tool\Python\3.13.3\x64\Scripts;C:\actions-runner\_work\_tool\Python\3.13.3\x64

After setup-python, we do have python, python3, pip, etc. on the path. Git is still not found. The Python shell works

GitHub hosted

Everything works. We get a very long path that includes all the tools we need (and many that we don't need)
@crohr
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crohr commented May 28, 2025

@dblanchette Windows images are currently very bare-bone, so they have a lot of shortcomings in terms of supported software compared to GitHub-hosted runners. This is an area I want to improve in the coming weeks, I'll let you know once it's ready for testing.

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