Building for multiple platforms

Petar Petar
Wed Feb 12 12:46:23 UTC 2020


On Wednesday, 12 February 2020 at 08:41:25 UTC, Neils wrote:
> I maintain an open-source project written in D and I use DUB 
> for building and my compiler backend is DMD. My dub.json file 
> is rather simple: 
> https://github.com/neilsf/XC-BASIC/blob/master/dub.json
>
> I offer pre-built binaries for Linux x86, Linux x86_64, Windows 
> and Mac OS.
>
> I'm only doing this for a year so I am still quite a beginner 
> in D and my workflow is the following when building the project:
>
> 1. Launch a VM using VirtualBox
> 2. dub build
> 3. Repeat for each platforms
>
> The above is a painfully slow process. Is there any way to make 
> it simpler and faster?
>
> Any suggestions are warmly appreciated.

Since your project is already on GitHub, I think the easiest 
solution would be to use GitHub Actions [1] + setup-dlang action 
[2] + upload-release-asset action [3]  to automate the whole 
process.

[1]: https://help.github.com/en/actions
[2]: https://github.com/mihails-strasuns/setup-dlang
[3]: https://github.com/actions/upload-release-asset


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