Re: basic GitHub action for building CCL lisp kernel?

I don't have any experience with github actions, but I do have spare bandwidth, a fair bit of experience running stuff in the cloud, and a willingness to read docs.

Apropos of which, according to the CCL docs there are 8 platforms:
reasonably recent macOS (x86-64)
Linux (x86, x86-64, armv7l)
FreeBSD (x86-64)
Solaris (well, illumos) (x86-64)
Microsoft Windows XP and later (x86, x86-64)
But you said six.  Which platforms have been dropped?

rg

> On Aug 10, 2023, at 9:10 PM, R. Matthew Emerson <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I think it would be useful have some kind of automated system that can compile the CCL lisp kernel (a C and assembly language program) on all of the platforms and report whether that worked.
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> So, if there are any changes in $repo/lisp-kernel, I’d like to trigger an automated build of all the lisp kernel platforms that I can.
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> Does anyone have experience doing this with GitHub Actions? If so, would you be willing to offer some tips?
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> Years ago, I had Buildbot set up and running fairly well, but I don’t want to spend time on that right now, especially if I can leverage GitHub services.
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> My long-term dream would be to have an automated way to make release binaries.  As it stands, I just got through building and packaging the 1.12.2 release for all six platforms by hand. But I’d be happy to start with baby steps.
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