build-yad.yml

name: Build and release yad

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

env:
  YAD_VERSION: "13.0"

jobs:
  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Install required packages
      run: |
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install autoconf automake intltool libgtk-3-dev libglib2.0-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev

    - name: Retrieve Yad source code
      run: |
          git clone https://github.com/v1cont/yad/ yad-dialog-code
          cd yad-dialog-code
          git checkout v$YAD_VERSION

    - name: Retrieve linux deploy
      working-directory: yad-dialog-code
      run: |
          wget https://github.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy/releases/download/continuous/linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage
          wget -c "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk/master/linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh"
          sed -i '/export GTK_THEME/d' linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh
          sed -i '/export GDK_BACKEND/d' linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh
          chmod +x ./linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage ./linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh
          ./linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-extract
          ./linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk.sh --help

    - name: Build Yad
      working-directory: yad-dialog-code
      run: |
          autoreconf -ivf
          intltoolize
          ./configure prefix=$(pwd)/AppDir --enable-standalone
          make
          make install

    - name: Prepare .desktop file
      working-directory: yad-dialog-code
      run: |
          cat << EOF > ./yad.desktop 
          [Desktop Entry]
          Encoding=UTF-8
          Name=Yad
          Categories=GTK;Development;
          Exec=yad
          Icon=yad
          Terminal=true
          Type=Application
          StartupNotify=true
          EOF

    - name: Create Appimage
      working-directory: yad-dialog-code
      run: |
        ./squashfs-root/AppRun \
          --appdir ./AppDir \
          -i ./data/icons/128x128/yad.png \
          --executable ./AppDir/bin/yad \
          -d ./yad.desktop \
          --plugin gtk \
          --output appimage

    - name: Move Appimage
      run: mv ./yad-dialog-code/Yad-x86_64.AppImage Yad-$YAD_VERSION-x86_64.AppImage

    - name: Calculate Appimage hash
      run: sha512sum Yad-$YAD_VERSION-x86_64.AppImage > Yad-$YAD_VERSION-x86_64.AppImage.sha512sum

    - name: Version workaround # See https://github.com/softprops/action-gh-release/issues/360#issuecomment-1599767780
      id: yad_version
      run: echo "version=$YAD_VERSION" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

    - name: Release
      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
      with:
        files: |
          Yad-${{ steps.yad_version.outputs.version }}-x86_64.AppImage
          Yad-${{ steps.yad_version.outputs.version }}-x86_64.AppImage.sha512sum
        body: "[`yad`](https://github.com/v1cont/yad) ${{ steps.yad_version.outputs.version }} appimage built on ubuntu with github actions"
        tag_name: Yad-${{ steps.yad_version.outputs.version }}-x86_64.AppImage