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hosted-pure-workflow #641

hosted-pure-workflow

hosted-pure-workflow #641

# Copyright (c) 2021-2022-2023-2024 Luca Cappa
# Released under the term specified in file LICENSE.txt
# SPDX short identifier: MIT
# A "pure" GitHub workflow using CMake, Ninja and vcpkg to build a C/C++ codebase.
# It leverages both CMakePresets.json and vcpkg.json.
# It is called "pure workflow" because it is an example which minimizes the usage of
# custom GitHub Actions, but leverages directly the tools that could be easily run on
# your development machines (i.e. CMake, vcpkg, Ninja) to ensure a perfectly identical
# and reproducible local build (on your development machine) and a remote build on
# build agents.
name: hosted-pure-workflow
on:
push:
pull_request:
branches:
- v11
- main
workflow_dispatch:
schedule:
- cron: '0 1 * * *'
jobs:
job:
name: ${{ matrix.os }}-${{ github.workflow }}
runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix:
os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
include:
- os: windows-latest
triplet: x64-windows
- os: ubuntu-latest
triplet: x64-linux
- os: macos-latest
triplet: x64-osx
env:
# Indicates the location of the vcpkg as a Git submodule of the project repository.
# Not using "VCPKG_ROOT" because a variable with the same name is defined in the VS's
# Developer Command Prompt environment in VS 2022 17.6, which would override this one
# if it had the same name.
_VCPKG_: ${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg
# Tells vcpkg where binary packages are stored.
VCPKG_DEFAULT_BINARY_CACHE: ${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg/bincache
# Let's use GitHub Action cache as storage for the vcpkg Binary Caching feature.
VCPKG_BINARY_SOURCES: 'clear;x-gha,readwrite'
steps:
# Set env vars needed for vcpkg to leverage the GitHub Action cache as a storage
# for Binary Caching.
- uses: actions/github-script@v7
with:
script: |
core.exportVariable('ACTIONS_CACHE_URL', process.env.ACTIONS_CACHE_URL || '');
core.exportVariable('ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN', process.env.ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN || '');
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
submodules: true
- name: "Create directory '${{ env.VCPKG_DEFAULT_BINARY_CACHE }}'"
run: mkdir -p $VCPKG_DEFAULT_BINARY_CACHE
shell: bash
# Setup the build machine with the most recent versions of CMake and Ninja. Both are cached if not already: on subsequent runs both will be quickly restored from GitHub cache service.
- uses: lukka/get-cmake@latest
# Restore vcpkg from the GitHub Action cache service. Note that packages are restored by vcpkg's binary caching
# when it is being run afterwards by CMake.
- name: Restore vcpkg
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
# The first path is the location of vcpkg: it contains the vcpkg executable and data files, as long as the
# built package archives (aka binary cache) which are located by VCPKG_DEFAULT_BINARY_CACHE env var.
# The other paths starting with '!' are exclusions: they contain termporary files generated during the build of the installed packages.
path: |
${{ env._VCPKG_ }}
!${{ env._VCPKG_ }}/buildtrees
!${{ env._VCPKG_ }}/packages
!${{ env._VCPKG_ }}/downloads
!${{ env._VCPKG_ }}/installed
# The key is composed in a way that it gets properly invalidated whenever a different version of vcpkg is being used.
key: |
${{ hashFiles( '.git/modules/vcpkg/HEAD' )}}
# On Windows runners, let's ensure to have the Developer Command Prompt environment setup correctly.
# As used here the Developer Command Prompt created is targeting x64 and using the default the Windows SDK.
- uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
# Run CMake to generate Ninja project files, using the vcpkg's toolchain file to resolve and install
# the dependencies as specified in vcpkg.json. Note that the vcpkg's toolchain is specified
# in the CMakePresets.json file.
# This step also runs vcpkg with Binary Caching leveraging GitHub Action cache to
# store the built packages artifacts.
- name: Restore from cache the dependencies and generate project files
run: |
cmake --preset ninja-multi-vcpkg
# Build (Release configuration only) the whole project with Ninja (which is spawn by CMake).
#
# Note: if the preset misses the "configuration", it is possible to explicitly select the
# configuration with the `--config` flag, e.g.:
# run: cmake --build --preset ninja-vcpkg --config Release
- name: Build (Release configuration)
run: |
cmake --build --preset ninja-vcpkg-release
# Test the whole project with CTest, again Release configuration only.
- name: Test (Release configuration)
run: |
ctest --preset test-release