GitHub Action: go-build-action

This actions generates cross-platform executable files from a Go module.

Automatic release management of the tree CLI tool using go-build-action action.

Workflow setup

# workflow name
name: Generate release-artifacts

# on events
on:
  release:
    types: 
        - created

# workflow tasks
jobs:
  generate:
    name: Generate cross-platform builds
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout the repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Generate build files
        uses: thatisuday/go-cross-build@v1
        with:
            platforms: 'linux/amd64, darwin/amd64, windows/amd64'
            package: 'demo'
            name: 'program'
            compress: 'true'
            dest: 'dist'

☉ option: platforms

The platforms option specifies comma-separated platform names to create binary-executable files for. To see the list of supported platforms, use go tool dist list command.

☉ option: package

If the module (repository) itself is a Go package, then package option value should be an empty string (''). If the repository contains a package directory, then package value should be the directory name.

☉ option: compress

The compress option if set to 'true' will generate compressed-tar archive files for the each platform-build file. The resulting archive file also contains README.md and LICENSE file if they exist inside the root of the repository. In this mode, the binary executable file name is taken from the name option value.

☉ option: name

The name option sets a prefix for the build filenames. In compression mode, this prefix is applied to archive files and binary executable filename is set to this value.

☉ option: dest

The dest option sets the output directory for the build files. This should be a relative directory without leading ./.

Build Artifacts

This action produces following build-artifacts.

In non-compression mode

./<dest>/
  ├── <name>-darwin-amd64
  ├── <name>-linux-amd64
  ├── ...
  └── <name>-windows-amd64.exe

In compression mode

./<dest>/
  ├── <name>-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
  |  ├── <name>
  |  ├── LICENSE
  |  └── README.md
  ├── <name>-linux-amd64.tar.gz
  |  ├── <name>
  |  ├── LICENSE
  |  └── README.md
  ├── ...
  └── <name>-windows-amd64.tar.gz
     ├── <name>.exe
     ├── LICENSE
     └── README.md