AutoHotkey Builder Action

GitHub Action for building AHK scripts with AHK2Exe.

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Attention

This action is designed ONLY for running in Windows Environment. It uses Windows binaries and runs in PowerShell. You have been warned!

By the way, AutoHotkey is also only available on Windows. Why do you want to compile your scripts on other platforms?

Synopsis

This action was inspired by implementation of this GitHub Action from @nekocodeX, so the original idea belongs to him/her. I would be very proud if he/she joined the development of this project too.

This action, unlike the original idea, is intended to be more flexible and more fail-safe. And this action is the only one by these parameters in its niche.

The mechanism of this action can be broken down into four main steps:

1. Downloading required binaries, such as AutoHotkey, AHK2Exe, UPX (if needed). All these binaries are downloaded from their official repositories.
2. Unpacking binaries and setup environment for successful build. All related files are located in ./._ahk.
3. Building you AutoHotkey scripts with this environment.
4. Cleaning up.

Usage example

Let's suppose that your scripts are in the root of your repository. Then after checkout they will be in the current working directory. Also let's suppose that you want to build in ./build. Lets see how we can deal with it:

name: Build

on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ master ]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Build with AHK v1.1.22.01
        uses: nukdokplex/autohotkey-build@v0.1
        with:
          version: v1.1.22.01
          x64: true
          x86: true
          compression: upx
          in: ""
          out: build
          icon: "icons"
      - name: Do domething with builded scripts
        shell: pwsh
        run: |
          ls build

Action input parameters

Parameter name	Parameter description	Required	Defaults to
version	The version of AutoHotkey to be used (must be the version from the official AutoHotkey repository, e.g. "v1.1.29.01").	false	latest
x64	Specifies whether to compile the 64-bit version.	false	true
x86	Specifies whether to compile the 32-bit version.	false	false
x64_suffix	Specifies suffix for the 64-bit version out file.	false	_x64
x86_suffix	Specifies suffix for the 32-bit version out file.	false	_x86
compression	Specifies which compression method to use. "none" - do not use compression, "upx" - use UPX compression. There is no MPRESS 'cause it's discontinued. Don't try to use it, it won't work.	false	none
in	Specifies a folder with scripts or a single script to be compiled. If you specify a folder, files with the extensions ".ahk", ".ahk2" will be taken. Recursive search in folder is not present.	false	Current Working Directory
out	Specifies the folder for output files.	false	build
icon	Specifies icons. If you pass a single file, it will apply to all scripts. If you pass a folder, an icon with the same name will be used for each script. For example, the script named test.ahk will use the file test.ico in that folder.	false

Thanks for making this possible

Many thanks to @nekocodeX for this great idea!

Github Action robinraju/release-downloader for cool action that got rid of the headache about downloading releases from GitHub.