Re: basic GitHub action for building CCL lisp kernel?

Typically, with github actions building unsupported platforms is done by
using qemu...


On Sun, Aug 13, 2023, 12:11 AM R. Matthew Emerson <[email protected]> wrote:

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> > 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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> I spent some time today on this.
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> First of all, my sample repository that includes a GitHub workflow to
> build a C program for several operating systems is
> https://github.com/xrme/actions-test
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> In particular, the workflow yaml file is
> https://github.com/xrme/actions-test/blob/main/.github/workflows/lisp-kernel.yaml
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> GitHub supports Linux, Mac, and Windows action runners. I think that the
> only supported architecture on GitHub-hosted runners in x86_64.
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> It’s possible to host one’s own runners, but the runner software doesn’t
> support all platforms of interest (in particular, FreeBSD and illumos). On
> the other hand, a self-hosted runner could run on 32-bit ARM or 64-bit ARM.
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> https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/managing-self-hosted-runners/about-self-hosted-runners#supported-architectures-and-operating-systems-for-self-hosted-runners
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> It seems to me that GitHub actions are a quick win for Linux/x8664 and
> macOS/x8664.
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> Windows/x8664 and Windows/x8632 look pretty good too; installing the MSYS2
> environment seems like it’s easy & reasonable.
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> Linux/x8632 can work, although it’s necessary to "apt install
> gcc-multilib”.  That seems a bit inefficient to do every time, especially
> on a free service, but maybe it’s not too bad.
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> I’d like to have Buildbot running again so that I could cover all the
> ports, but the GitHub actions could, I hope, be useful as a partial
> solution.
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