Make a CI/CD about openseachest

[hashimaziz1]

Would also be interested in this. A Windows binary would work out of the box using Cygwin - for which hdparm is no longer maintained and therefore an alternative is needed - but actually building the binary with the Cygwin toolchain would be a hassle if past experience is anything to go by.

[vonericsen]

Hi @tomidix,
Thanks for the suggestion. We will look into adding a CI/CD for the Windows build and see what we can get going.

[xahmad]

We used to have Travis CI building Windows binaries on a release tag. Then it stopped working. I reached out to Travis support and at the time (2+ years ago) for all open source projects, they were not providing any debug support for Windows, so the automatic build was commented out from the yml file.

@vonericsen maybe...check the git history on the travis.yml file to see if the old one with Windows would build now.

@Kaos-Industries have you looked at the releases posted here?
https://github.com/Seagate/ToolBin

[vonericsen]

Wanted to provide an update. Yesterday I added Github actions for CI on Windows and Linux, so those are now running.
I'm still working my way through setting them up to trigger posting release builds automatically.

I need to investigate how Travis and Cirrus CI are setup and whether they are still needed or not. CirrusCI will likely stay to provide FreeBSD CI, but I will try to get it updated to have the same capabilities to build releases too.

[vonericsen]

I am closing this issue now as there is a lot of active CI including generating artifacts. If there are additional requests to enhance the CI for openSeaChest, please open a new issue describing what needs to be done.