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[goanpeca]

Awesome on using the action @chrisdembia :-p so, on your example you could do it like:

name: Windows

# syntax https://help.github.com/en/articles/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions
on:
  push:
    branches: 
      - '*'
    tags:
      - '*'
    
jobs:
  conda:
    name: conda-build

    runs-on: windows-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
  
    - uses: goanpeca/setup-miniconda@v1.0.1
      with:
        auto-update-conda: true
        activate-environment: packaging   # This will create and auto activate this environment
        # This will be installed on packaging but with the defaults channel
        python-version: 3.7
        # Should I add a default_channels input (like the condarc option?)
        # https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/configuration/use-condarc.html#default-channels
        default_channels: conda-forge,some-other-channel
        channels: other-channel
        
    - name: Initialize Conda for Powershell
      shell: pwsh
      run: conda install --channel conda-forge anaconda-client conda-verify  # since it is auto activated, no need to specify name and switched the create for install

    - name: Deploy Conda package
      run: |
        # conda config --set anaconda_upload yes
        echo "login"
        # anaconda login --username ${{ secrets.ANACONDA_USERNAME }} --password ${{ secrets.ANACONDA_PASSWORD }}
        echo "build"
        # conda-build --channel conda-forge --user opensim-org .
        # conda-build --channel conda-forge --user opensim-org --token ${{ secrets.ANACONDA_TOKEN }} .
        conda-build --channel conda-forge .
        echo "logout"
        anaconda logout

You could probably use an environment.yml file where you could specify all your needed packages

[chrisdembia]

Thanks @goanpeca . As for your question about default_channels:, I do not know enough about conda to advise you on your Action.

conda-build on Windows is not working for me. I had a small amount of hope that your Action would help, but I still have the same problem (https://github.com/opensim-org/conda-opensim-moco/commit/3bd60df44cedb68eb3f0e72de8ce9b133fbc4b8f/checks?check_suite_id=367922854):

The console is not showing an error message, yet the build fails.

Do you have any insights into what's causing this?

You seem more knowledgeable about using conda, so if you are willing, I'd greatly appreciate your help.

[goanpeca]

I will try to build it and let you know no worries

[chrisdembia]

Oh my gosh thank you!

My labmate and I have both attempted building for Windows locally on our machines and the build gets much farther along than with GitHub Actions (it eventually fails, but in minutes, not instantly). So I wonder if the issue is specific to the GitHub Actions environment.