Pamplejuce/Studiorack & Github Actions

[modularsamples]

Is anyone using Github actions to automate the build process for HISE projects? How hard was it to setup? Was it worth the effort?

I've come across a couple of projects that suggest that it is possible to (after some initial setup) to build validated, cross platform plugins automatically. [Pamplejuce] (https://github.com/sudara/pamplejuce) (love the name) seems the more mature, better documented project, though Studiorack looks pretty interesting too, but with a broader set of goals.

As I understand it, once setup a user could build & download a version of a plugin that includes the most recent commit at the push of a button. In my case, this would be (excuse the hyperbole) a game changer!

[Christoph Hart]

Sure you can automate everything using the command line interface of HISE and the projucer.

https://github.com/christophhart/vcsl_hise/blob/master/build.bat
https://github.com/christophhart/vcsl_hise/blob/master/build.sh

[modularsamples]

@Christoph-Hart Thanks, these scripts seem reasonable easy to understand. It's just a case of integrating them into Actions, I guess. If I can get it working, I'll see about writing a tutorial.

[Christoph Hart]

@modularsamples I haven't setup GitHub actions for this repo, but I'm using it for the HISE CI build, which does more or less the same (check out the repo and then run a script):

name: CI Build
on: 
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches: 
      - develop
jobs:
  ci_macos:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, macos]
    steps:
      - name: Cleanup working directory
        run: rm -rf "${{github.workspace}}" 
      - name: Checkout HISE repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v1
        with:
          ref: 'develop'
      - name: Build & Run CI script
        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/tools/auto_build/
        run: sh ./build_ci.sh
  ci_windows:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, windows]
    steps:
      - name: Cleanup working directory
        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}
        run: del *.* /Q /S
        shell: cmd
      - name: Checkout HISE repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v1
        with:
          ref: 'develop'
      - name: Build HISE CI, run unit tests & export demo project
        working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}/tools/auto_build/
        run: build_ci.bat
        shell: cmd