From 4dded30e1e895247741703fd507e89872a79b70f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Range <30547301+JR-1991@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:06:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add GitHub Actions workflow for building dist artifacts

Introduces a new workflow file to automate building and packaging distribution artifacts using cargo-dist. The workflow includes planning, caching, building, and uploading artifacts for multiple platforms, improving CI/CD automation.
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 .github/workflows/build-dist.yml | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 103 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/build-dist.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-dist.yml b/.github/workflows/build-dist.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e2ab910
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-dist.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+name: Build Dist
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  push:
+
+jobs:
+  # Run 'dist plan' (or host) to determine what tasks we need to do
+  plan:
+    runs-on: 'ubuntu-22.04'
+    outputs:
+      val: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.manifest }}
+      tag: ''
+      tag-flag: ''
+      publishing: ${{ !github.event.pull_request }}
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: Install dist
+        shell: bash
+        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.30.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
+      - name: Cache dist
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: cargo-dist-cache
+          path: ~/.cargo/bin/dist
+      - id: plan
+        run: |
+          dist plan --output-format=json > plan-dist-manifest.json
+          echo "dist ran successfully"
+          cat plan-dist-manifest.json
+          echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." plan-dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: 'Upload dist-manifest.json'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: artifacts-plan-dist-manifest
+          path: plan-dist-manifest.json
+
+  # Build and packages all the platform-specific things
+  build-local-artifacts:
+    name: build-local-artifacts (${{ join(matrix.targets, ', ') }})
+    needs:
+      - plan
+    if: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix.include != null && (needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' || fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.pr_run_mode == 'upload') }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
+    container: ${{ matrix.container && matrix.container.image || null }}
+    env:
+      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}-dist-manifest.json
+    steps:
+      - name: enable windows longpaths
+        run: |
+          git config --global core.longpaths true
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: Install Rust non-interactively if not already installed
+        if: ${{ matrix.container }}
+        run: |
+          if ! command -v cargo > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+            curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
+            echo "$HOME/.cargo/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          fi
+      - name: Install dist
+        run: ${{ matrix.install_dist.run }}
+      - name: Fetch local artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          pattern: artifacts-*
+          path: target/distrib/
+          merge-multiple: true
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          ${{ matrix.packages_install }}
+      - name: Build artifacts
+        run: |
+          # Actually do builds and make zips and whatnot
+          dist build --print=linkage --output-format=json ${{ matrix.dist_args }} > dist-manifest.json
+          echo "dist ran successfully"
+      - id: cargo-dist
+        name: Post-build
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
+          echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          dist print-upload-files-from-manifest --manifest dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+          cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
+      - name: 'Upload artifacts'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: artifacts-build-local-${{ join(matrix.targets, '_') }}
+          path: |
+            ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
+            ${{ env.BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME }}