This repository contains a GitHub Action specialized for building DPF-based audio plugins that use Makefile as their build system.

It supports:

• building Linux, macOS and Windows in various architectures
• perform plugin validation for all formats supported by DPF, including run-time memory checks
• upload "nightly" artifact archives for each build
• upload release archives

Template setup

The latest recommended setup is:

jobs:
  linux:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        target: [linux-arm64, linux-armhf, linux-i686, linux-riscv64, linux-x86_64]
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: recursive
      - uses: distrho/dpf-makefile-action@v1
        with:
          target: ${{ matrix.target }}

  macos:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        target: [macos-intel, macos-universal]
    runs-on: macos-11
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: recursive
      - uses: distrho/dpf-makefile-action@v1
        with:
          target: ${{ matrix.target }}

  windows:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        target: [win32, win64]
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: recursive
      - uses: distrho/dpf-makefile-action@v1
        with:
          target: ${{ matrix.target }}

  pluginval:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: recursive
      - uses: distrho/dpf-makefile-action@v1
        with:
          target: pluginval

  source:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: recursive
      - uses: distrho/dpf-makefile-action@v1
        with:
          target: source

Documentation

The table below contains all possible properties for use with distrho/dpf-makefile-action@v1 action.

Property	Required?	Description
target	Yes	The target platform and architecture to build for
debug	No	Whether to build in debug mode, defaults to no
lto	No	Whether to enable Link-Time-Optimizations, defaults to no
dpf_path	No	Where DPF is located within your repo, defaults to "./dpf"
extraargs	No	Extra arguments to pass into make
faust	No	Whether to install faust
hvcc	No	Whether to install hvcc
pawpaw	No	Whether to use PawPaw to install and setup extra libraries, defaults to no
release	No	Whether to automatically upload releases, defaults to yes
suffix	No	Artifact and release filename suffix

The table below contains all possible targets and supported runners.

Target	Aliases	Allowed runners
linux-arm64		ubuntu-20.04,22.04,24.04
linux-armhf		ubuntu-20.04,22.04,24.04
linux-i686	linux-i386	ubuntu-20.04,22.04,24.04
linux-riscv64		ubuntu-20.04,22.04,24.04
linux-x86_64	linux	ubuntu-20.04,22.04,24.04
macos-intel		macos-12,13,14
macos-universal	macos	macos-12,13,14
macos-10.15	macos-universal-10.15	macos-12,13,14
win32		ubuntu-20.04,22.04,24.04
win64		ubuntu-20.04,22.04,24.04
pluginval	plugin-validation	ubuntu-20.04,22.04,24.04
source		ubuntu-20.04,22.04,24.04

Notes:

• ubuntu-24.04 runner has broken 32bit support, which breaks wine and i686 builds
• macos-intel uses 10.8 as minimum version
• macos-universal uses 10.12 as minimum version
• Windows builds use Ubuntu runners in cross-compilation instead of Windows ones

Changelog

1

Initial release

Future Plans

• Set up MOD Audio builds