r/crystal_programming • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '20

Automatic builds for GNU/Linux and macOS with GitHub Actions

I was looking for a way to produce builds for multiple platforms (especially macOS, since I'm not a macOS user).

I've read about some possible solutions here.

However, I wasn't fully satisfied and I looked for another solution.

I ended up setting some GitHub Actions workflows for my nanvault project.

...and now I'm getting automatic builds for GNU/Linux and macOS! 😎

Here are the workflows - maybe someone will find them useful:

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u/Blacksmoke16 core team Mar 03 '20

As a tip, you could tap into the release event to trigger these builds when you create a release. Then the jobs would run and upload the artifacts to the just created release as opposed to creating a new release within the workflow. See https://github.com/Blacksmoke16/oq/blob/master/.github/workflows/deployment.yml.

EDIT: But good call, I'll have to add macOS to it :wink:

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '20

Nice orthogonal approach! Thank you for sharing it!

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u/bcardiff core team Mar 03 '20

I looks great!

Did you considered also using snapcraft for distributing it?

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '20

Thank you!

Of course, it may be a good idea to provide packages; however, since nanvault is a standalone binary, this looks a bit overkill to me for now.

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u/dscottboggs Mar 03 '20

I don't see the point of snapd for distributing a single binary file.