From 707edccf0387ba4a5c7966bd8cedb2e4ddf92f00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H. Peter Anvin (Intel)" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 12:58:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ci: add a real-MSVC (cl.exe/nmake) build job

Add a build-msvc job on windows-latest that uses ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd
to set up the MSVC developer environment, builds NASM with
'nmake /f Mkfiles/msvc.mak', and smoke-tests the resulting nasm.exe/
ndisasm.exe by assembling and disassembling a tiny program and
building a win64 object file.

This is the first CI coverage of the MSVC build path (Mkfiles/msvc.mak
+ config/msvc.h), which previously had no automated verification.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .github/workflows/test.yml | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index d4068cc41..c3bf09378 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -43,3 +43,32 @@ jobs:
           name: travis-log
           path: travis.log
           if-no-files-found: warn
+
+  build-msvc:
+    name: Build with MSVC (Windows)
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Set up MSVC developer environment
+        uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
+        with:
+          arch: x64
+
+      - name: Build with nmake/cl.exe
+        shell: cmd
+        run: |
+          nmake /f Mkfiles\msvc.mak
+
+      - name: Smoke-test the resulting binaries
+        shell: cmd
+        run: |
+          nasm.exe --version
+          ndisasm.exe --version
+          echo mov eax, 1 > smoke.asm
+          echo ret >> smoke.asm
+          nasm.exe -f bin smoke.asm -o smoke.bin
+          ndisasm.exe -b 64 smoke.bin
+          nasm.exe -f win64 smoke.asm -o smoke.obj