| A runner that builds nothing, and an AppImage anyway 41bcb21 nandi 23h ago | 1 | # The build, on rickub. GitLab CI next door reads source and no more — |
| One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 20h ago | 2 | # check-common on every push — and deliberately builds nothing. This is the |
| 3 | # other half: the web bundle, actually compiled. |
| A runner that builds nothing, and an AppImage anyway 41bcb21 nandi 23h ago | 4 | # |
| One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 20h ago | 5 | # It is not compiled *here*. The job hands the work to Modal exactly as a |
| 6 | # person at a terminal would, and the Sandbox does it against the `devshell` |
| 7 | # volume. What a runner contributes is a checkout, a python, and somewhere to |
| 8 | # put the result afterwards. The reason it goes to Modal is the volume the |
| 9 | # toolchain is cached on, not the size of the build. |
| A runner that builds nothing, and an AppImage anyway 41bcb21 nandi 23h ago | 10 | # |
| 11 | # Lives in .rickub/workflows/ rather than .github/workflows/ because rickub |
| 12 | # reads one or the other and never both: with this directory present, a |
| 13 | # .github/workflows/ added later would be silently ignored. There is none |
| 14 | # today, so nothing is being shadowed — see |
| 15 | # https://rickub.com/docs/actions and https://rickub.com/docs/migrating-from-github |
| 16 | name: build |
| 17 | |
| 18 | on: |
| 19 | push: |
| 20 | workflow_dispatch: |
| 21 | |
| 22 | jobs: |
| 23 | # The same read-only check GitLab runs, for the same reason: common/ compiles |
| One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 20h ago | 24 | # for two targets, so a host-specific call in shared code breaks one of them |
| 25 | # at a namespace nobody touched. Seconds, no toolchain. Worth having on both |
| 26 | # hosts rather than depending on which one a given push reaches. |
| A runner that builds nothing, and an AppImage anyway 41bcb21 nandi 23h ago | 27 | check-common: |
| 28 | runs-on: ubuntu-latest |
| 29 | steps: |
| 30 | - uses: actions/checkout@v4 |
| 31 | - run: python3 tools/check-common.py common |
| 32 | |
| CI that can actually build the Nim core 1403956 nandi 16h ago | 33 | # The Nim core: its own suite, and the library the Dart job needs. |
| 34 | # |
| No containers for the JS-action jobs 3760746 nandi 16h ago | 35 | # NOT in a `container:`, and that is the whole reason this job is shaped the |
| 36 | # way it is. `actions/upload-artifact` is a node20 action and JS actions run |
| 37 | # inside the job container, so `nimlang/nim` — which carries no node — failed |
| 38 | # the upload step with `node: command not found` after everything real had |
| 39 | # already passed. The runner image has node; Nim is what it lacks, and Nim is |
| 40 | # the easier of the two to bring. |
| CI that can actually build the Nim core 1403956 nandi 16h ago | 41 | # |
| No containers for the JS-action jobs 3760746 nandi 16h ago | 42 | # Pinned by sha256 rather than taken from apt, which is this repo's habit |
| 43 | # elsewhere — see `tools/toolchain.sh`, which fetches Flutter, a JDK and the |
| 44 | # Clojure CLI the same way. An apt Nim is whatever the distro froze, and |
| 45 | # `nim/nim.cfg` needs >= 2.0. |
| One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 20h ago | 46 | nim-test: |
| 47 | runs-on: ubuntu-latest |
| No containers for the JS-action jobs 3760746 nandi 16h ago | 48 | env: |
| 49 | NIM_VERSION: "2.2.10" |
| 50 | NIM_SHA256: "0a3a38752e97e9d44aa479b3a7b37336dfe0176daf22ee5b5218ad0991ecd211" |
| One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 20h ago | 51 | steps: |
| 52 | - uses: actions/checkout@v4 |
| No containers for the JS-action jobs 3760746 nandi 16h ago | 53 | |
| 54 | # libssl-dev because `nim/nim.cfg` sets `-d:ssl`: std/net wants OpenSSL |
| 55 | # for the TLS on :6697 and `frq.atproto` uses httpclient over the same. |
| 56 | - name: OpenSSL headers |
| 57 | run: sudo apt-get update -qq && sudo apt-get install -y -qq libssl-dev |
| 58 | |
| 59 | - name: Nim ${{ env.NIM_VERSION }} |
| 60 | run: | |
| 61 | set -euo pipefail |
| 62 | url="https://nim-lang.org/download/nim-${NIM_VERSION}-linux_x64.tar.xz" |
| 63 | curl -fsSL -o /tmp/nim.tar.xz "$url" |
| 64 | echo "${NIM_SHA256} /tmp/nim.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c - |
| 65 | mkdir -p /opt/nim && tar -xJf /tmp/nim.tar.xz -C /opt/nim --strip-components=1 |
| 66 | echo "/opt/nim/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH" |
| 67 | |
| CI that can actually build the Nim core 1403956 nandi 16h ago | 68 | - name: The Nim suite |
| 69 | run: cd nim && for t in tests/t*.nim; do nim c -r --hints:off --path:src "$t"; done |
| No containers for the JS-action jobs 3760746 nandi 16h ago | 70 | |
| CI that can actually build the Nim core 1403956 nandi 16h ago | 71 | - name: Build libfrqcore.so |
| 72 | run: | |
| 73 | cd nim && nim c --app:lib --mm:orc -d:release --hints:off --path:src \ |
| 74 | --out:../build/nim/libfrqcore.so src/frq_core.nim |
| No containers for the JS-action jobs 3760746 nandi 16h ago | 75 | # Diagnostic, not a gate. Worth reading: Nim resolves OpenSSL through |
| 76 | # dlopen rather than a link-time NEEDED, so libssl will not appear |
| 77 | # here and the Dart job still has to have one installed. |
| CI that can actually build the Nim core 1403956 nandi 16h ago | 78 | objdump -p ../build/nim/libfrqcore.so | grep NEEDED || true |
| No containers for the JS-action jobs 3760746 nandi 16h ago | 79 | |
| CI that can actually build the Nim core 1403956 nandi 16h ago | 80 | - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 |
| 81 | with: |
| 82 | name: libfrqcore |
| 83 | path: build/nim/libfrqcore.so |
| 84 | if-no-files-found: error |
| One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 20h ago | 85 | |
| CI that can actually build the Nim core 1403956 nandi 16h ago | 86 | # The Dart side of the same boundary, on the plain VM — no Flutter, no |
| No containers for the JS-action jobs 3760746 nandi 16h ago | 87 | # emulator, which is what makes it a second to run. |
| 88 | # |
| 89 | # No container here either, for the same node reason: `download-artifact` is |
| 90 | # a JS action too. Dart comes from its own setup action instead. |
| 91 | # |
| 92 | # `libssl3` because the .so dlopens OpenSSL at startup and the Dart SDK |
| 93 | # carries its own BoringSSL rather than bringing one. |
| The binding is Dart, and it works f7aea3b nandi 20h ago | 94 | dart-test: |
| 95 | runs-on: ubuntu-latest |
| CI that can actually build the Nim core 1403956 nandi 16h ago | 96 | needs: [nim-test] |
| No containers for the JS-action jobs 3760746 nandi 16h ago | 97 | env: |
| 98 | DART_VERSION: "3.13.4" |
| 99 | DART_SHA256: "6487a10df5eab890d746d14a55f4c70bec3c1c0633f51804eb504cbc0fc395bb" |
| The binding is Dart, and it works f7aea3b nandi 20h ago | 100 | steps: |
| 101 | - uses: actions/checkout@v4 |
| No containers for the JS-action jobs 3760746 nandi 16h ago | 102 | |
| 103 | # The SDK by sha256 rather than `dart-lang/setup-dart`, for the reason |
| 104 | # the Nim job pins its tarball: a third-party action is one more thing |
| 105 | # that has to resolve on this host, and this one does not have to. |
| 106 | - name: Dart ${{ env.DART_VERSION }} |
| 107 | run: | |
| 108 | set -euo pipefail |
| 109 | url="https://storage.googleapis.com/dart-archive/channels/stable/release/${DART_VERSION}/sdk/dartsdk-linux-x64-release.zip" |
| 110 | curl -fsSL -o /tmp/dart.zip "$url" |
| 111 | echo "${DART_SHA256} /tmp/dart.zip" | sha256sum -c - |
| 112 | sudo unzip -q /tmp/dart.zip -d /opt |
| 113 | echo "/opt/dart-sdk/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH" |
| 114 | |
| 115 | - run: sudo apt-get update -qq && sudo apt-get install -y -qq libssl3 |
| CI that can actually build the Nim core 1403956 nandi 16h ago | 116 | - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4 |
| 117 | with: |
| 118 | name: libfrqcore |
| 119 | path: build/nim |
| The binding is Dart, and it works f7aea3b nandi 20h ago | 120 | - run: cd dart/frq_core && dart pub get && dart test -r expanded |
| 121 | |
| One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 20h ago | 122 | web: |
| A runner that builds nothing, and an AppImage anyway 41bcb21 nandi 23h ago | 123 | runs-on: ubuntu-latest |
| The binding is Dart, and it works f7aea3b nandi 20h ago | 124 | needs: [check-common, nim-test, dart-test] |
| One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 20h ago | 125 | # What it spends its time on is the ClojureDart compile and, on a cold |
| 126 | # toolchain, fetching the pinned Flutter/JDK/Clojure tarballs. |
| A Mesa nobody needed, and the AppImage that carried it 9db383c nandi 22h ago | 127 | timeout-minutes: 30 |
| A runner that builds nothing, and an AppImage anyway 41bcb21 nandi 23h ago | 128 | steps: |
| 129 | # The container copies `.` — the whole working tree, uncommitted edits |
| 130 | # included. On a runner that is whatever the checkout left, so it wants |
| 131 | # to be the commit and not a shallow surprise. |
| 132 | - uses: actions/checkout@v4 |
| 133 | |
| 134 | - uses: actions/setup-python@v5 |
| 135 | with: |
| 136 | python-version: "3.12" |
| 137 | |
| 138 | - run: pip install --disable-pip-version-check modal |
| 139 | |
| 140 | # Two secrets, set under Settings -> Secrets and variables. A Modal |
| 141 | # token is the whole of this job's configuration: no nix, no builder, |
| 142 | # no cache of its own. |
| One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 20h ago | 143 | - name: Build the web bundle, on Modal |
| A runner that builds nothing, and an AppImage anyway 41bcb21 nandi 23h ago | 144 | env: |
| 145 | MODAL_TOKEN_ID: ${{ secrets.MODAL_TOKEN_ID }} |
| 146 | MODAL_TOKEN_SECRET: ${{ secrets.MODAL_TOKEN_SECRET }} |
| 147 | # Unpiped on purpose. The image build streams to this client and |
| 148 | # nowhere else, and `modal app logs` cannot reach an ephemeral run — |
| 149 | # so this terminal is the only place the build is visible. tee, not |
| 150 | # tail: a run killed mid-pipe through tail takes its output with it. |
| Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 16h ago | 151 | run: modal run .modal/web/container.py 2>&1 | tee /tmp/frq-build.log |
| A runner that builds nothing, and an AppImage anyway 41bcb21 nandi 23h ago | 152 | |
| One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 20h ago | 153 | # The Sandbox leaves the bundle on the devshell volume rather than |
| 154 | # anywhere a runner can see, so fetch it back out. |
| A Mesa nobody needed, and the AppImage that carried it 9db383c nandi 22h ago | 155 | - name: Fetch the bundle out of the volume |
| A runner that builds nothing, and an AppImage anyway 41bcb21 nandi 23h ago | 156 | env: |
| 157 | MODAL_TOKEN_ID: ${{ secrets.MODAL_TOKEN_ID }} |
| 158 | MODAL_TOKEN_SECRET: ${{ secrets.MODAL_TOKEN_SECRET }} |
| Fetch the web bundle the way web-local does e505ded nandi 16h ago | 159 | # Into a directory that already exists, which `modal volume get` then |
| Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 16h ago | 160 | # creates `web/` inside — the same shape `just serve` uses. Naming |
| Fetch the web bundle the way web-local does e505ded nandi 16h ago | 161 | # `web` as the destination itself is what failed, with `[Errno 21] Is a |
| 162 | # directory`, after the Modal build had already succeeded. |
| A Mesa nobody needed, and the AppImage that carried it 9db383c nandi 22h ago | 163 | run: | |
| Fetch the web bundle the way web-local does e505ded nandi 16h ago | 164 | mkdir -p dist |
| A Mesa nobody needed, and the AppImage that carried it 9db383c nandi 22h ago | 165 | modal volume get --force devshell \ |
| Six verbs, and the last of the nix 2e24e64 nandi 16h ago | 166 | frq-web/flutter/build/web dist |
| A runner that builds nothing, and an AppImage anyway 41bcb21 nandi 23h ago | 167 | |
| 168 | - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 |
| 169 | with: |
| One frontend where there were three, and a core that is not Clojure 438b247 nandi 20h ago | 170 | name: frq-web-${{ github.sha }} |
| Fetch the web bundle the way web-local does e505ded nandi 16h ago | 171 | path: dist/web |
| 172 | if-no-files-found: error |
| A runner that builds nothing, and an AppImage anyway 41bcb21 nandi 23h ago | 173 | if-no-files-found: error |
| 174 | |
| 175 | # Kept whether or not the build succeeded: a failed run's log is the |
| 176 | # one most worth reading, and it is gone with the runner otherwise. |
| 177 | - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 |
| 178 | if: always() |
| 179 | with: |
| 180 | name: build-log |
| 181 | path: /tmp/frq-build.log |
| 182 | if-no-files-found: ignore |