Hello,
The project I’m working on depends on Windows Driver Kit (WDK) and soon we will depend on the Windows SDK as well. Each of them takes at least 5 minutes to download and install, amounting to over 10 minutes, which is a huge share of the otherwise few seconds of build time that the project needs. See the build job:
https://travis-ci.com/intel/haxm/jobs/158661495
Here’s the question: Is it possible to preserve those dependencies across builds? Could the cache features be used to improve the performance of our Travis script?
If no solution is available, have you considered pre-installing these dependencies in the Windows image (windowsdriverkit10 and windows-sdk-10.1)? While the WDK might be less used, the Windows SDK is an essential component for building many Windows applications.
Thank you for your time.