search

seeraven / gitcache

Local cache for git repositories to speed up working with large repositories and multiple clones.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
33 stars 6 forks source link

Add make targets for macOS x86_64/arm64 release builds #30

Closed Youw closed 5 months ago

Youw commented 5 months ago

I've tested that the project works on macOS (ARM64) when executed from git tree just fine. PIP dependencies I've used the same as for Ubuntu. I guess it should be just a matter of defining a release target. (Assuming make4py supports macOS).

seeraven commented 5 months ago

I'm not owning any Apple product, and apparently there is no out-of-the-box qemu that I could use for testing and building the releases. Seems like that is intended by Apple.

https://github.com/seeraven/make4py should run on any platform supporting make and having a minimal python ecosystem. But for building the building the binaries using pyInstaller, it has to run in the actual target environment, which would require something like a VM resp. QEMU to get from Intel to ARM64.

Perhaps it would be sufficient to build it on a compatible platform. Do you know whether there are some compatible systems out there that are already usable as VirtualBox/Qemu/Vagrant boxes?

Youw commented 5 months ago

No, never used anything like that myself. But we could make even one step further: start using Github Actions for automatic builds. There are native macOS Runners available. I have a good example of such: https://github.com/libusb/hidapi/blob/master/.github/workflows/builds.yml

And I have a macOS (M1) machine, to try things locally.

Even supporting only native builds would be already a huge step forward.

seeraven commented 5 months ago

That is indeed a good idea! I will test it starting with a platform I know and then it can be extended to whatever platform is out there. :-)

amontalban commented 5 months ago

Hello :wave:,

I am in the process to test this tool and having a native ARM64 build would be great to test things outside our CI/CD environment.

Let me know if you need help testing things out.

seeraven commented 5 months ago

Short update on the current state: I've managed to use the github actions to test everything and create the pyinstaller binaries. Next steps are:

Once I have the first releases built on github, I can test the Linux and Windows releases, but it would be cool if you can then test the MacOS release. :-)

seeraven commented 5 months ago

So, the first release built using github runners and including the MacOS arm64 built is now available: https://github.com/seeraven/gitcache/releases/tag/v1.0.15

I'm currently testing the Ubuntu and Windows binaries. Would be cool if someone can test the MacOS version. :-)

amontalban commented 5 months ago

It worked very well in my macOS machine (M1 Pro). Thanks!

seeraven commented 5 months ago

Thanks for your feedback @amontalban ! :-) I will close this issue then.