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Windows installer build crashes in a shell with no UTF-8 setting #1
Description
The Windows installer step crashes when the build runs in a shell with no UTF-8 language setting:
libc++abi: terminating due to uncaught exception of type std::bad_alloc: std::bad_alloc
./build-windows.sh: line 62: Abort trap: 6 makensis -V2 OfficePrinting.nsi
This was seen with NSIS 3.13 from Homebrew on an Apple Silicon Mac. Setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 makes it work, and even a five-line test script crashes without it, so the cause is the setting and not the installer script.
Where to look: the makensis line near the end of Source code/installer/build-windows.sh.
Done when: the build works from a shell with no language setting, for example env -u LANG -u LC_ALL ./build-windows.sh. en_US.UTF-8 may not exist on every Linux build machine (the GitHub build runs on Ubuntu), so please check that the Windows job still passes.
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