gsutil is not working on windows

[vohtaski]

We are using setup-gcloud. It works perfectly on linux. However on windows-latest we are having issues with gsutil not being found while gcloud is working.

This is the config that always returns an error

jobs:
  release-win-to-gcs:
    name: Release Win to GCP

    runs-on: windows-latest

    steps:
      - name: Setup gcloud CLI for Dev
        uses: GoogleCloudPlatform/github-actions/setup-gcloud@master
        with:
          version: 'latest'
          project_id: ${{ env.PROJECT_ID }}
          service_account_email: ${{ env.SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL }}
          service_account_key: ${{ secrets.DEV_GITHUB_CI_CD_SA_KEY}}
      - run: gcloud info

      - run: gsutil

Error:

Looks like gsutil it's looking python in the wrong place.

[vohtaski]

I also tried to use the following setting:

      - run: gsutil
        shell: bash

and got the following issue, gcloud info worked.

[sethvargo]

This is probably related to https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/github-actions/blob/dbbc2aaee4ded56fea9d438baacbdd875addfc3f/setup-gcloud/tests/integration-tests.sh#L26-L28.

[vohtaski]

Made it work for now with the following:

$env:python_version=$(python -c 'import sys; print(\".\".join(map(str, sys.version_info[:3])))')         

$env:CLOUDSDK_PYTHON="C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\$env:python_version\x64\python"

[craigdbarber]

Thanks for raising the issue @vohtaski This is indeed a known issue when the Windows distribution of the gcloud-sdk. Another workaround for Windows is documented here: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil_install#expandable-1-label

[splix]

Another workaround. There is ${{env.pythonLocation}}, which to my understanding comes from actions/setup-python, and it contains the base path to Pyhton. The only only issue is that you need that only for Windows, so you have to duplicate everything.

Workflow may look like:

      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
        with:
          python-version: 3.7

      - name: Setup GCP (windows)
        uses: GoogleCloudPlatform/github-actions/setup-gcloud@master
        if: runner.os == 'Windows'
        env:
          CLOUDSDK_PYTHON: ${{env.pythonLocation}}\python.exe
        with: ...

      - name: Use GCP (windows)
        run: gsutil cp ....
        if: runner.os == 'Windows'
        env:
          CLOUDSDK_PYTHON: ${{env.pythonLocation}}\python.exe

[splix]

@averikitsch hi, can you please confirm if that was fixed in the master and the workarounds could be dropped? thanks

[averikitsch]

Sorry, closed this prematurely - reopening

[mirzawaseembaig]

Github is not working on window 7 version

[amacneil]

Anyone working on this? Is there a recommended workaround?

[sethvargo]

Hi folks - I'm going to close this out. For gsutil issues, please open an issue on the Google Cloud CLI tracker. Additionally, you may want to try gcloud storage instead of gsutil.