[ci] Try enabling MSVC and check build times (taichi-dev#6905)

Issue: #

### Brief Summary

Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

.github/workflows/scripts/common-utils.ps1

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ function Setup-VS {
     Info "Setting up Visual Studio"
     foreach($progRoot in $env:ProgramFiles, ${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}) {
         $vsBase = Join-Path $progRoot 'Microsoft Visual Studio'
-        foreach($ver in '2022','2019') {
+        foreach($ver in '2022') {
             foreach($edition in 'Enterprise','Professional','Community','BuildTools') {
                 $vsPath = Join-Path $vsBase $ver $edition
                 $clangPath = Join-Path $vsPath "VC\Tools\Llvm\x64\bin\clang.exe"

.github/workflows/scripts/win_build.ps1

@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ if ($llvmVer -eq "10") {
     throw "Unsupported LLVM version"
 }
 
-$env:TAICHI_CMAKE_ARGS += " -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang"
+$env:TAICHI_USE_MSBUILD = 1
+# $env:TAICHI_CMAKE_ARGS += " -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang"
 
 if ($installVulkan) {
     $env:VULKAN_SDK = "C:\VulkanSDK\1.3.236.0"

ci/windows/win_build_test.ps1

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ if (!$llvmVer.CompareTo("10")) {
     $env:LLVM_DIR = "C://taichi_llvm_15"
 }
 
+$env:TAICHI_USE_MSBUILD = 1
 $env:TAICHI_CMAKE_ARGS =' -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=C:/Program\ Files\ (x86)/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio/2019/BuildTools/vc/Tools/Llvm/x64/bin/clang++.exe -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=C:/Program\ Files\ (x86)/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio/2019/BuildTools/vc/Tools/Llvm/x64/bin/clang.exe'
 if (!$llvmVer.CompareTo("10")) {
     $env:TAICHI_CMAKE_ARGS += " -DCLANG_EXECUTABLE=C:\\taichi_clang\\bin\\clang++.exe"

cmake/TaichiCAPI.cmake

@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ add_library(${TAICHI_C_API_NAME} SHARED ${C_API_SOURCE})
 if (${CMAKE_GENERATOR} STREQUAL "Xcode")
   target_link_libraries(${TAICHI_C_API_NAME} PRIVATE taichi_core)
   message(WARNING "Static wrapping does not work on Xcode, using object linking instead.")
+elseif (MSVC)
+  target_link_libraries(${TAICHI_C_API_NAME} PRIVATE taichi_core)
 else()
   target_link_static_library(${TAICHI_C_API_NAME} taichi_core)
 endif()
@@ -71,6 +73,22 @@ set_target_properties(${TAICHI_C_API_NAME} PROPERTIES
     LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${C_API_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}
     ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${C_API_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY})
 
+if (${CMAKE_GENERATOR} MATCHES "^Visual Studio")
+  # Visual Studio is a multi-config generator, which appends ${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} to the output folder
+  add_custom_command(
+        TARGET ${TAICHI_C_API_NAME} POST_BUILD
+        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
+                ${C_API_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}/${TAICHI_C_API_NAME}.dll
+                ${C_API_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/${TAICHI_C_API_NAME}.dll)
+elseif (${CMAKE_GENERATOR} STREQUAL "XCode")
+  # XCode is also a multi-config generator
+  add_custom_command(
+        TARGET ${TAICHI_C_API_NAME} POST_BUILD
+        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
+                ${C_API_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}/lib${TAICHI_C_API_NAME}.dylib
+                ${C_API_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/lib${TAICHI_C_API_NAME}.dylib)
+endif()
+
 target_include_directories(${TAICHI_C_API_NAME}
     PUBLIC
         # Used when building the library:

setup.py

@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ def get_cmake_args():
 def cmake_install_manifest_filter(manifest_files):
     return [
         f for f in manifest_files
-        if f.endswith(('.so', 'pyd', '.bc', '.h',
+        if f.endswith(('.so', 'pyd', '.dll', '.bc', '.h',
                        '.hpp')) or os.path.basename(f) == 'libMoltenVK.dylib'
     ]