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Breaking this out from https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19001#comment:36, where dcf wrote,

I pushed some preliminary code for getting started with a windows reproducible build. https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/dcf/tor-browser-bundle.git/log/?h=snowflake-windows&id=0f48dc9e1904fa0643576fc8dcf3db50a4d2f959

It doesn't work yet; after ./mkbundle-windows.sh versions.alpha, it eventually fails with: {{{

• /home/ubuntu/build/webrtc/src/out_bootstrap/gn gen out/Release '--args= target_os="win" target_cpu="x86" is_debug=false treat_warnings_as_errors=false is_component_build=false is_clang=true use_sysroot=false clang_use_chrome_plugins=false clang_base_path="/home/ubuntu/build/clang" rtc_include_opus=false rtc_include_ilbc=false rtc_include_internal_audio_device=false rtc_include_tests=true' ERROR at //build/config/BUILDCONFIG.gn:239:3: Assertion failed. assert(target_os == host_os, "Win cross-compiles only work on win hosts.") ^----- Win cross-compiles only work on win hosts. }}} But at this point one can ssh into the build VM and start debugging the build failures.

Some further notes from what we've discovered so far.

• https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/win_cross.md says that we need to add target_os = ['win'] to our .gclient file before calling gclient sync to get some additional deps.

• https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git/+/master/win_toolchain/README.md says that Googlers have access to the necessary toolchain, but we don't.

• https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git/+/master/win_toolchain/package_from_installed.py points to a method of creating it from a fresh VM. Presumably we can use https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ and the community version of Visual Studio (steps to reproduce will follow)