Cannot deploy using github actions

[nick-stebbings]

I had to make the following changes to get to the current problem, which I believe is that the tauri-action github action does not work with v2 of Tauri yet.

Steps to reproduce, editing the release-tauri-app.yaml workflow:

• Change to runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }} (it was previously just runs-on: $ which would just hang indefinitely waiting for a runner)

• Add step to install pnpm

  
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
  
    - name: Setup pnpm
      uses: pnpm/action-setup@v3 # docs https://pnpm.io/continuous-integration#github-actions
      with:
          version: 8  # Optional: specify a pnpm version

• I now get runners for Windows, Ubuntu, and they get to the step for tauri-action and I get this error: running tauri [ 'build'] Errortauri.conf.jsonerror onbuild: Additional properties are not allowed ('devUrl', 'frontendDist' were unexpected) Errortauri.conf.jsonerror: Additional properties are not allowed ('app', 'bundle', 'identifier', 'productName', 'version' were unexpected)

Here is a link to it failing: https://github.com/HabFract/monorepo/actions/runs/9852914196/job/27202368343

Here is my current (slightly edited to build my packages) workflow file:

name: "release-tauri-app"
on:
  push:
    tags:
      - 'v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+'

jobs:
  release-tauri-app:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        platform: [windows-2019, macos-11, ubuntu-22.04]
    env:
      MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.13

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Support longpaths
        if: matrix.platform != 'ubuntu-22.04'
        run: git config --system core.longpaths true

      - name: Setup pnpm
        uses: pnpm/action-setup@v3 # docs https://pnpm.io/continuous-integration#github-actions
        with:
            version: 8  # Optional: specify a pnpm version

      # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
      # Checks out a copy of your repository on the ubuntu-latest machine
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: setup node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 20
      - name: install Rust stable
        uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
        with:
          override: true
          toolchain: stable
      - name: install Go stable
        uses: actions/setup-go@v4
        with:
          go-version: "stable"

      - name: install dependencies (ubuntu only)
        if: matrix.platform == 'ubuntu-22.04'
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev \
            build-essential \
            curl \
            wget \
            file \
            libssl-dev \
            libgtk-3-dev \
            libayatana-appindicator3-dev \
            librsvg2-dev \
            javascriptcoregtk-4.1 \
            libsoup-3.0 \
            webkit2gtk-4.1

      - name: Install and prepare
        run: |
          pnpm i vite -D -w
          cd design-system && pnpm build
          pnpm install

      - name: build the app
        uses: tauri-apps/tauri-action@v0
        env:  
          GITHUB_TOKEN: $
        with:
          projectPath: src-tauri
          tagName: v__VERSION__ # the action automatically replaces \_\_VERSION\_\_ with the app version
          releaseName: "Test v__VERSION__"
          releaseBody: "See assets below to download and install this version."
          releaseDraft: true
          prerelease: true

[guillemcordoba]

Hey @nick-stebbings ! Thanks for this. You're right in that the github workflow scaffolded with the scaffold-tauri-happ command had some issues, I just merged this PR to ammend them.

I think what's happening is that the tauri action has the projectPath property set to src-tauri, which came from the scaffold-tauri-happ command, but that's actually wrong and is what leads to the error you show. So to fix this one error, you just remove it from the parameters of the tauri action. Oh and also fix the GITHUB_TOKEN env for that step so that its value is ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} while we are at it.

So you would end up with:

name: "release-tauri-app"
on:
  push:
    tags:
      - 'v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+'

jobs:
  release-tauri-app:
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        platform: [windows-2019, macos-11, ubuntu-22.04]
    env:
      MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.13

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Support longpaths
        if: matrix.platform != 'ubuntu-22.04'
        run: git config --system core.longpaths true

      - name: Setup pnpm
        uses: pnpm/action-setup@v3 # docs https://pnpm.io/continuous-integration#github-actions
        with:
            version: 8  # Optional: specify a pnpm version

      # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
      # Checks out a copy of your repository on the ubuntu-latest machine
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: setup node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 20
      - name: install Rust stable
        uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
        with:
          override: true
          toolchain: stable
      - name: install Go stable
        uses: actions/setup-go@v4
        with:
          go-version: "stable"

      - name: install dependencies (ubuntu only)
        if: matrix.platform == 'ubuntu-22.04'
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev \
            build-essential \
            curl \
            wget \
            file \
            libssl-dev \
            libgtk-3-dev \
            libayatana-appindicator3-dev \
            librsvg2-dev \
            javascriptcoregtk-4.1 \
            libsoup-3.0 \
            webkit2gtk-4.1

      - name: Install and prepare
        run: |
          pnpm i vite -D -w
          cd design-system && pnpm build
          pnpm install

      - name: build the app
        uses: tauri-apps/tauri-action@v0
        env:  
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          tagName: v__VERSION__ # the action automatically replaces \_\_VERSION\_\_ with the app version
          releaseName: "Test v__VERSION__"
          releaseBody: "See assets below to download and install this version."
          releaseDraft: true
          prerelease: true

In that PR, I also added a publish-happ job before the building of the tauri app itself. The purpose of that is to have the .happ be built only once, then upload that to github releases, and then have the build for the other platforms fetch that .happ and use it to build the tauri app. All of this is so that the DNA hashes match in all platforms and the apps connect across platforms. If you want to integrate that, you should also remove the npm run build:happ from the beforeBuildCommand property in tauri.conf.json.

[nick-stebbings]

Hi @guillemcordoba Thanks for addressing this so quickly. I have got it all working, but there were some extra tweaks that were needed. Namely:

• Adding wasm32-unknown-unknown as a build target so the config now reads:

    - name: install Rust stable
      uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
      with:
        override: true
        toolchain: stable
        target: wasm32-unknown-unknown

• Removing the build:happ step from the tauri.conf.json beforeBuildCommand property (it was much easier to build the .happ locally and check it in, otherwise the workflow would need the nix environment setting up, which is too long a process, to avoid failing at hc app pack).
• I had to change the mac OS platform in the matrix array to macos-latest in order for github to provision a runner for that target.

It is now building on all targets for me: https://github.com/HabFract/monorepo/actions/runs/9927702315/job/27422984671

Cheers!