Copilot Build Instructions #1211
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What does this Pull Request accomplish?
I've been experimenting with using Copilot's Agent Mode with the grpc-device repo, and the biggest challenge is that copilot is not able to do a build correctly when cmake is configured with ninja. Here's what happens when you try:
To fix this, I've added a copilot-instructions.md file that tells copilot to use a
copilot-build.ps1script that I've created. This build script always callsvcvars64.batto set the environment variables before calling cmake.Why should this Pull Request be merged?
This allows Copilot Agent Mode to do complete build/test/fix loops on its own.
What testing has been done?