• The get-cmake action installs as fast as possible your desired versions of CMake and Ninja
  • Quickstart
    • If you want to use latest stable you can use this one-liner:
    • If you want to pin the workflow to specific range of versions of CMake and Ninja:
  • Action reference: all input/output parameters
  • Who is using get-cmake
• Developers information
  • Prerequisites
  • Build and lint
  • Generate the catalog of CMake releases
  • Packaging
  • Testing
  • Contributing
• License

The get-cmake action installs as fast as possible your desired versions of CMake and Ninja

The action restores from local or cloud based cache both CMake and Ninja. If a cache-miss occurs, it downloads and caches the tools right away.

Works for x64 and arm64 hosts on Linux, macOS and Windows.

The desired version can be specified using semantic versioning ranges, and also use install or installrc special tokens to install resp. the latest stable or release candidate.

There are two kind of caches:

• The cloud based GitHub cache. Enabled by default, it can be disabled using the input useCloudCache:false.
• The local self-hosted runner cache, stored locally using tool-cache. Disabled by default, it can enabled with the input useLocalCache:true.

Steps of get-cmake:

1. If a cache-hit occurs (either local or cloud cache), CMake and Ninja are restored from the cache.
   1. if both local and cloud are enabled, the local cache check goes first.
2. If a cache-miss occurs, i.e. none of the enabled caches hit:

   1. the action downloads and installs the desired versions of CMake and Ninja.

   2. the action stores CMake and Ninja for the enabled caches:

      1. if enabled, on the cloud based GitHub cache. This is beneficial for the next run of the workflow especially on GitHub-hosted runners.
      2. if enabled, on the local GitHub runner cache. This is beneficial for the next run of the workflow on the same self-hosted runner.

      Note: when there is a cache-hit, nothing will be stored in any of the caches.

3. Adds to the PATH environment variable the binary directories for CMake and Ninja.

Quickstart

If you want to use latest stable you can use this one-liner:

  # Option 1: using 'latest' branch, the most recent CMake and ninja are installed.
    - uses: lukka/get-cmake@latest  # <--= Just this one-liner suffices.

The local and cloud cache can be enabled or disabled, for example:

    # Suited for self-hosted GH runners where the local cache wins over the cloud.
    - uses: lukka/get-cmake@latest  
      with:
        useLocalCache: true         # <--= Use the local cache (default is 'false').
        useCloudCache: false        # <--= Ditch the cloud cache (default is 'true').

And there is a second option:

  # Option 2: specify 'latest' or 'latestrc' in the input version arguments:
    - name: Get latest CMake and Ninja
      uses: lukka/get-cmake@latest
      with:
        cmakeVersion: latestrc      # <--= optional, use the latest release candidate (notice the 'rc' suffix).
        ninjaVersion: latest        # <--= optional, use the latest release (non candidate).

If you want to pin the workflow to specific range of versions of CMake and Ninja:

  # Option 1: specify in a input parameter the desired version using ranges.
  - uses: lukka/get-cmake@latest
    with:
      cmakeVersion: "~3.25.0"  # <--= optional, use most recent 3.25.x version
      ninjaVersion: "^1.11.1"  # <--= optional, use most recent 1.x version

  # or using a specific version (no range)
  - uses: lukka/get-cmake@latest
    with:
      cmakeVersion: 3.25.2     # <--= optional, stick to exactly 3.25.2 version
      ninjaVersion: 1.11.1     # <--= optional, stick to exactly 1.11.1 version

or there is another option:

  # Option 2: or you can use the Git 'tag' to select the version, and you can have a one-liner statement,
  # but note that you can only use one of the existing tags, create a PR to add the tag you need!
  - name: Get specific version CMake, v3.26.0
    uses: lukka/get-cmake@v3.26.0     # <- this one-liner is all you need.

Action reference: all input/output parameters

Please read action.yml.

Who is using get-cmake

This graph shows the list of public repositories with more than 25 stars using get-cmake.

Developers information

Prerequisites

gulp 4 globally installed.

Build and lint

Build with tsc running:

npm run build

Launch lint by:

npm run lint

Generate the catalog of CMake releases

To generate the catalog of CMake releases, run a special test with this command:

npm run generate-catalog

Then embed the new catalog by packaging the action.

Packaging

To build, lint validate and package the extension (and embed the release catalog) for release purpose, run:

npm run pack

Testing

To build, pack and run all tests:

npm run test

To run all tests:

npx jest

or

npx jest -- -t "<regex to match the describe clause>"

Contributing

The software is provided as is, there is no warranty of any kind. All users are encouraged to improve the source code with fixes and new features.

License

All the content in this repository is licensed under the MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2020-2021-2022-2023-2024 Luca Cappa