Can you add FreeBSD to CI?

[Curculigo]

Can you copy this workflow and adapt it for elena-lang?

https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux/blob/master/.github/workflows/bsd.yml

[arakov]

Sure. I will take a look. It is not clear for me what CPU it is. I guess it is still Intel?

[Curculigo]

I don't know that you provide nightly builds. Can you clean it up a bit? I think nightly builds shouldn't include version numbers in their names and you should keep only the latest nightly builds. Something like this is good:

https://github.com/SpartanJ/eepp/releases/tag/nightly

[Curculigo]

Sure, I will add a release action. I just wonder if nightly build can be needed as well?

It seems currently nightly builds are only for Windows. I think that's OK. Building Elena on Windows needs MSVC and some people don't have MSVC. But if you don't build Elena on FreeBSD regularly (I know that only Windows and Linux are tier-1 platforms), I think nightly builds on FreeBSD CI will help you know if the latest code still builds on FreeBSD.

[ghost]

I think it's OK to have version numbers in nightly builds. But you should delete older nightly builds.

[arakov]

Is there any example, how to remove old files from the nightly release?

[arakov]

The old nightly builds are removed now automatically

[ghost]

If Elena FreeBSD doesn't need anything other than a base FreeBSD installation (given the GTK-based IDE is not yet available), I think you should consider cross compiling from Linux to FreeBSD. You can grab the FreeBSD installation tarball for sysroot. Clang is a cross compiler out of the box. You only need to tell it which platform you want to target and give it a correct sysroot. This will be much faster and thus consume less CI time than running a FreeBSD VM in Github Actions.

[Curculigo]

How can you do that in a CI? Is there a ready to use Docker image? When the IDE is available, you will need a FreeBSD installation anyway.

[arakov]

Is there any example? It took me more than hour last time just simply reading the version from the file. It is quite hard to debug, so I would prefer to have some examples. I saw the workflow with a virtual machine and it is quite simple. But when simpler way exists I can try it as well

[arakov]

I've added a nightly build for FreeBSD, using a virtual machine. If there is simpler way I can look at it later.

Thanks a lot for suggestions.

It will be run once in two days. I think it will be enough to note if the build will fail. So for it is for AMD64. Later I could add support for ARM64 if there will be an interest