Tag: github-actions

Apple Tree

How To: Awesome CI / CD for macOS apps

Omer Levi Hevroni
In the past week, I was working on building a small utility macOS application. It was pretty fun – Swift is a really nice language. One of the challenges was setting up a CI / CD pipeline: I wanted to create an app everyone could download and use after each commit, automatically. It requires a lot of digging and googling, so I wanted to share what I did – in case you’ll encounter a similar problem… Continue reading “How To: Awesome CI / CD for macOS apps” →
Building Tools

How To Build Go & C Code for Windows using Github Actions

Omer Levi Hevroni
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine needed a small program that accepts data in a CSV format and produces some reports. The code itself was very simple – I’ve chosen Go because I wanted to produce an executable that could run on any machine. No runtime dependencies are required.
The fun part started when he asked to generate the PDF reports. I’ve found a good C library, wkhtmltopdf, and a Go bindings library. I got it working and was able to produce PDF files on my Mac machines pretty fast. The problem: My friend needed a Windows binary! How can I set up a CI/CD pipeline to build the executable with support for the native C library? This is the story I am planning to tell today. If you’re just interested in the TL;DR, you can just check the workflow file on Github.
So, without further ado, let’s begin! Continue reading “How To Build Go & C Code for Windows using Github Actions” →