Setup mechanism to perform release builds via GitHub actions

tekenny commented 2 years ago

Description

Setup mechanism to perform release builds via GitHub actions possibly triggered via a release tag. Why - this will reduce manual work to perform a release.

Steps To Reproduce

None - no automated builds exist

Expected behavior

A release build is automatically performed when a release tag is created.

Actual Behavior

None - no automated builds exist

Reproduces how often

Always

Version information

Morse Runner version: 1.81
OS/Version: Windows 10

Additional context

TASKS

[ ] 1 - determine how MorseRunner.exe can be built via the command line with MSBuild
[ ] 2 - determine how to get GitHub actions to invoke MSBuild to build MorseRunner.exe based on a release tag
[ ] 3 - test that release is available in a consistent place and can be properly installed by users

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w7sst commented 2 years ago

Zack Metinger has built a Makefile (I'm 90% sure of this). His code is in our repository on the zmetzing-normalized branch. You can look at his Makefile to see what you can learn. Let us know what you learn.

I don't know if he was using Lazarus or Delphi. I have reached out to him to get him to join our project and sent him an invite to join.

tekenny commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the info I‘ll look at that branch when I get a chance to do so.

BTW I tried to do a Delphi build from the command line. It stated this license (community edition) does NOT support building from the command line :-(

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