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Installing Dependencies and Tools

Oftentimes you need additional components to get you software to build using GitHub Actions. I fell over this very informative blog post by Edward Thomson.

He gave the following example, which pretty much outlines some good example:

name: CI

on: [push]

jobs:
  linux:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - run: sudo apt-get install ninja-build
      - run: ninja --version

  windows:
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
      - run: choco install ninja
      - run: ninja --version

  mac:
    runs-on: macos-latest
    steps:
      - run: brew install ninja
      - run: ninja --version

Example lifted from blog post by Edward Thomson.

Using the above approach I was able tweak a GitHub action build of my fork of the Perl distributionDateTime::Astro.

name: Dist::Zilla Action
on:
  push:

env:
  GMP_HOME: /usr
  MPFR_HOME: /usr

jobs:
  linux:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: "CI"

    steps:
      - name: "Install C libraries for dependencies"
        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libmpfr-dev libgmp-dev cpanminus
      - name: "Checkout repository"
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: "Building and testing all"
        run: sudo cpanm --with-configure --installdeps . && perl Build.PL && ./Build && ./Build test

Example lifted from a branch jonasbn/DateTime-Astro

In addition to installing the required C libraries. I had to inform the build system of their presence, I did this using environment variables, following the documentation from GitHub.

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