Automated building and releasing Plugins on Github with Github Actions

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Hi,

I just wanted to let you know that I added now the possibility to use the official Rack Plugin Toolchain for building a plugin with Github Actions. The Docker image is build at https://github.com/qno/rack-plugin-toolchain and published at https://github.com/qno/rack-plugin-toolchain/pkgs/container/rack-plugin-toolchain.

I updated the workflow definition at the example repository.

All you have to do is to use this workflow definition:

name: Build VCV Rack Plugin
on: [push, pull_request]

env:
  rack-plugin-toolchain-dir: /home/build/rack-plugin-toolchain

defaults:
  run:
    shell: bash

jobs:
  build:
    name: ${{ matrix.platform }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
      image: ghcr.io/qno/rack-plugin-toolchain:v2
      options: --user root
    strategy:
      matrix:
        platform: [linux, mac, win]
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          submodules: recursive
      - name: Modify plugin version
        # only modify plugin version if no tag was created
        if: "! startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')"
        run: |
          gitrev=`git rev-parse --short HEAD`
          pluginversion=`jq -r '.version' plugin.json`
          echo "Set plugin version from $pluginversion to $pluginversion-$gitrev"
          cat <<< `jq --arg VERSION "$pluginversion-$gitrev" '.version=$VERSION' plugin.json` > plugin.json
      - name: Build plugin
        run: |
          export PLUGIN_DIR=$GITHUB_WORKSPACE
          pushd ${{ env.rack-plugin-toolchain-dir }}
          make plugin-build-${{ matrix.platform }}
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          path: ${{ env.rack-plugin-toolchain-dir }}/plugin-build
          name: ${{ matrix.platform }}

  publish:
    name: Publish plugin
    # only create a release if a tag was created that is called e.g. v1.2.3
    # see also https://vcvrack.com/manual/Manifest#version
    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: build
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: FranzDiebold/github-env-vars-action@v1.2.1
      - name: Check if plugin version matches tag
        run: |
          pluginversion=`jq -r '.version' plugin.json`
          if [ "v$pluginversion" != "${{ env.GITHUB_REF_NAME }}" ]; then
            echo "Plugin version from plugin.json 'v$pluginversion' doesn't match with tag version '${{ env.GITHUB_REF_NAME }}'"
            exit 1
          fi
      - name: Create Release
        uses: actions/create-release@v1
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          tag_name: ${{ github.ref }}
          release_name: Release ${{ github.ref }}
          body: |
            ${{ env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY_NAME }} VCV Rack Plugin ${{ env.GITHUB_REF_NAME }}
          draft: false
          prerelease: false
      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
        with:
          path: _artifacts
      - name: Upload release assets
        uses: svenstaro/upload-release-action@v2
        with:
          repo_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          file: _artifacts/**/*.vcvplugin
          tag: ${{ github.ref }}
          file_glob: true
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