test: Enable mt.exe on macOS with Wine 9.0

[huangqinjin]

mt.exe no longer crashes on macOS with Wine 9.0.

macOS-12 runner image version 20240119 has updated to Wine 9.0.
https://github.com/huangqinjin/msvc-wine/actions/runs/7583317817/job/20752571482

Let's wait until most runners have been upgraded.

[mstorsjo]

mt.exe no longer crashes on macOS with Wine 9.0.

That's good news, thanks!

macOS-12 runner image version 20240119 has updated to Wine 9.0. https://github.com/huangqinjin/msvc-wine/actions/runs/7583317817/job/20752571482

Let's wait until most runners have been upgraded.

This is weird - as Wine itself isn't shipped as part of the runner install, but we install it from brew, I wouldn't expect that the runner version itself should matter. Or does it depend on how old brew package listing cache there is in the base install? Can we do something like brew update or similar (untested) to make sure we get the latest Wine consistently, for now until all active runners have a new enough brew package cache?

[huangqinjin]

Yes, brew update works!

[mstorsjo]

Yes, brew update works!

Thanks, this looks good to me. I testran brew update && brew install wine-stable a couple times, so I got a runner with an older OS image, and I still got wine 9.0, so this seems to work as expected.

[mstorsjo]

FWIW, the brew update stage seems to break installing meson (which installs python) in current versions - see https://github.com/mstorsjo/msvc-wine/actions/runs/7902146137/job/21567372457.

It's reproducible with something as little as brew update && brew install meson.

It's not clear to me if this is a generic homebrew issue (I don't see any reports about the same in homebrew), or if it is caused by something else installed on the github actions runners, that conflicts with homebrew's python when it tries to update it. It does seem to happen with both macos-12 and macos-13 runners (which both are x86), but not with macos-14 (which is arm64). AFAIK macos-latest currently actually still points at macos-12.

[mstorsjo]

FWIW, the brew update stage seems to break installing meson (which installs python) in current versions - see https://github.com/mstorsjo/msvc-wine/actions/runs/7902146137/job/21567372457.

It's reproducible with something as little as brew update && brew install meson.

It's not clear to me if this is a generic homebrew issue (I don't see any reports about the same in homebrew), or if it is caused by something else installed on the github actions runners, that conflicts with homebrew's python when it tries to update it. It does seem to happen with both macos-12 and macos-13 runners (which both are x86), but not with macos-14 (which is arm64). AFAIK macos-latest currently actually still points at macos-12.

I can somewhat work around this, by installing software in two stages; first brew install msitools cmake ninja meson, followed by brew update and brew install wine-stable. This works on macos-12 runners, but on macos-13 runners, even this procedure seems to fail.