Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Lazarus

When build for the Qt5 widgetset, the combination of stable/v3.0 and ubuntu-latest/ubuntu-22.04 is going to fail.

This is due to the fact that libqt5pas is outdated and does not support the new code delivered by Lazarus 3.0.

This is a problem related to the Ubuntu distribution's repositories and the version of libqt5pas they carry, used by the GitHub runners.

According to the maintainer of said libqt5pas, in this answer, one solution is to have the workflow script download and install a newer version.

The newer version can be obtained here: https://github.com/davidbannon/libqt5pas/releases

Thank you for your patience, continued support and please accept my deepest apologies for this inconvenience.

REQUIRED Lazarus version.

DEFAULT dist.

Possible values:

• dist - Lazarus package that comes with the Ubuntu dist you chose on runs-on and for Windows the latest stable
• stable - Installs the latest stable version: 3.0
• 3.0 - comes with FPC v3.2.2
• 2.2.6 - comes with FPC v3.2.2
• 2.2.4 - comes with FPC v3.2.2
• 2.2.2 - comes with FPC v3.2.2
• 2.2.0 - comes with FPC v3.2.2
• 2.0.12 - comes with FPC v3.2.0
• 2.0.10 - comes with FPC v3.2.0
• 2.0.8 - comes with FPC v3.0.4
• 2.0.6 - comes with FPC v3.0.4
• 2.0.4 - comes with FPC v3.0.4
• 2.0.2 - comes with FPC v3.0.4
• 2.0.0 - comes with FPC v3.0.4
• 1.8.4 - comes with FPC v3.0.4
• 1.8.2 - comes with FPC v3.0.4
• 1.8.0 - comes with FPC v3.0.4
• 1.6.4 - comes with FPC v3.0.2
• 1.6.2 - comes with FPC v3.0.0
• 1.6 - comes with FPC v3.0.0
• 1.4.4 - comes with FPC v2.6.4
• 1.4.2 - comes with FPC v2.6.4
• 1.4 - comes with FPC v2.6.4
• 1.2.6 - comes with FPC v2.6.4
• 1.2.4 - comes with FPC v2.6.4
• 1.2.2 - comes with FPC v2.6.4
• 1.2 - comes with FPC v2.6.2
• 1.2 - comes with FPC v2.6.2
• 1.0.14 - comes with FPC v2.6.2
• 1.0.12 - comes with FPC v2.6.2

OPTIONAL List of packages to install.

You can ask the action to fetch packages and install them after Lazarus is installed.

Format is a string with the packages separated by comma: "Package 1, Package 2, Package 3".

The list of packages can be searched at the Lazarus IDE repository.

OPTIONAL Use cached installer files.

DEFAULT true.

This is a boolean input and will use cache if set to true.

NOTE

At this moment, there's an issue with the retrieved install executables for Windows. I'm trying to get to the bottom of why, but it's going to take some time. Caching is now off by default for Windows until I can solve this issue!

At the moment this action only supports:

• Windows (platform=win32, arch=x64)
• Linux (platform=linux, arch=x64)
• macOS (platform=darwin, arch=x64)

Due to the hard work of Levi there is now support for macOS.

Unfortunately there are some restrictions:

• The GitHub macOS runners only support Lazarus versions 2.0.8 and up.
• Until further notice only Cocoa widgset is supported on macOS runners.

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: gcarreno/setup-lazarus@v3
  with:
    lazarus-version: "stable"
    include-packages: "Synapse 40.1"
    with-cache: true
- run: lazbuild YourTestProject.lpi
- run: YourTestProject

name: build

on:
  pull_request:
  push:
    paths-ignore:
    - "README.md"
    branches:
      - master
      - releases/*

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.operating-system }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        operating-system: [windows-latest,ubuntu-latest,macos-latest]
        lazarus-versions: [dist, stable, 2.2.0, 2.0.12, 2.0.10, 2.0.8, 2.0.6]
    steps:
    - name: Checkout source code
      uses: actions/checkout@v4
    - name: Install Lazarus
      uses: gcarreno/setup-lazarus@v3
      with:
        lazarus-version: ${{ matrix.lazarus-versions }}
        include-packages: "Synapse 40.1"
        with-cache: true
    - name: Build the Main Application
      if: ${{ matrix.operating-system != 'macos-latest' }}
      run: lazbuild -B "src/lazaruswithgithubactions.lpi"
    - name: Build the Main Application (macOS)
      if: ${{ matrix.operating-system == 'macos-latest' }}
      run: lazbuild -B --ws=cocoa "src/lazaruswithgithubactions.lpi"
    - name: Build the Unit Tests Application
      run: lazbuild -B "tests/testconsoleapplication.lpi"
    - name: Run the Unit Tests Application
      run: bin/testconsoleapplication "--all" "--format=plain"