[VIDEO-2683] - Build Windows GST from source (#164)

* [VIDEO-2683] - Modified the action script to build gstreamer for windows from source. TODO: Add caching lookup and store

* [VIDEO-2683] - Re-enabled libav after local testing ensured it worked and did not interfere with libsoup build and install

* [VIDEO-2683] - Ran npm prepare

* [VIDEO-2683] - Fixed action input syntax and usage to conform to string only input variables

* [VIDEO-2683] - Updated test workflow to install Meson and Ninja for windows builds

* [VIDEO-2683] - Fixed usage of pathing for cwd option in windows builds

* [VIDEO-2683] - Updated test workflow to make sure all needed python dependencies for the gstreamer build on Windows are present

* [VIDEO-2683] - Fixed up syntax erro in shell command

* [VIDEO-2683]
 - Added missing input environment variable for windows to unit tests

* [VIDEO-2683] - Fixed and added environment variables in support of functional testing

* [VIDEO-2683] - Updated dist

* [VIDEO-2683] - Reran prepare to fix apparent issue with dist

* [VIDEO-2683] - Added buildSource option so that Windows can alternatively install from binary packages or build from source. Fixed up yaml auto formatting back to original. Reverted unit tests to only do binaries. Added matrix options for build from source and excluded the invalid options

* [VIDEO-2683] - Reran prepare to fix up after merge conflicts on rebase from commit

* [VIDEO-2683] - Further clean up

* [VIDEO-2683] - Reran prepare - apparently Node 18 prepare produces results that fail the dist check in GH

* [VIDEO-2683] - Added buildSource option to test options from matrix

* [VIDEO-2683] - Added returns to break processing if conditions merit failing the action

* [VIDEO-2386] - Fixed copy pasta for source directorypath that would have tried to clone to the install directory if the environment variable was set

* [VIDEO-2683] - Update action.yml per suggestion

Co-authored-by: Jeff Wilson <[email protected]>

* [VIDEO-2683] - Updated build options handling and source build flag option per suggestions from PR

* [VIDEO-2683] - Ran the forgotten npm prepare

* [VIDEO-2683] - Updated environment variable name to match change in option name

* [VIDEO0-2683] - Updated option mapping on test matrix for forceBuildFromSource option

* [VIDEO-2683] - Updated handling of the multiline input for build arguments based on review of yaml safeload and github actions docs

* [VIDEO-2683] - Minor changes for debugging failing test of windows build from source

* [VIDEO-2683] - Fixed multi line input handling and splitting from further investigation of correct technique

* [VIDEO-2683] - Change to use the getMultilineInput function rather than doing our own splitting

Co-authored-by: Jeff Wilson <[email protected]>

* [VIDEO-2683] - Ran npm prepare for github committed change to index.js

* [VIDEO-2684] - Added auto version tag updating on minor releases

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Co-authored-by: Jeff Wilson <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/auto-update-version.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+name: Auto Update Version
+run-name: Move to ${{ github.ref_name }}
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - v*
+
+jobs:
+  update:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: update version
+        id: update-version
+        uses: blinemedical/action-update-version@v1
+        with:
+          target: ${{ github.ref_name }}

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -24,19 +24,35 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         os: ['windows-2019', 'windows-2022', 'macos-12', 'ubuntu-20.04']
         arch: ['x86', 'x86_64']
+        buildSource: [true, false]
         exclude:
           - os:   'macos-12'
             arch: 'x86'
           - os:   'ubuntu-20.04'
             arch: 'x86'
+          - os:   'macos-12'
+            buildSource: true
+          - os:   'ubuntu-20.04'
+            buildSource: false
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
+    - name: Install Python for Windows
+      if: matrix.os == 'windows-2019' || matrix.os == 'windows-2022'
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+      with:
+        python-version: '3.x'
+
+    - name: Install Meson and Ninja Dependencies for Windows
+      if: matrix.os == 'windows-2019' || matrix.os == 'windows-2022'
+      run: pip install setuptools meson ninja
+
     - name: Setup GStreamer with default version
       uses: ./
       with:
         arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
+        forceBuildFromSource: ${{ matrix.buildSource }}
 
     - name: Run gst-inspect --version
       run: |

action.yml

@@ -17,6 +17,34 @@ inputs:
     description: 'the location of the source repository'
     required:    false
     default:     'https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer.git'
+  forceBuildFromSource:
+    description: 'whether to force building from source instead of using installer package'
+    required: false
+    default: false
+  gstreamerOptions:
+    description: 'The option configuration string for buliding GStreamer from source'
+    required:    false
+    default: |-
+      -Dlibnice:tests=disabled
+      -Dlibnice:examples=disabled
+      -Dopenh264:tests=disabled
+      -Dpygobject:tests=false
+      -Dpython=enabled
+      -Dlibav=enabled
+      -Dugly=enabled
+      -Dbad=enabled
+      -Ddevtools=enabled
+      -Dges=enabled
+      -Drtsp_server=enabled
+      -Dvaapi=enabled
+      -Dsharp=disabled
+      -Dgpl=enabled
+      -Dpython=disabled
+      -Dvaapi=disabled
+      -Dgst-plugins-base:pango=enabled
+      -Dgst-plugins-good:cairo=enabled
+      -Dgst-plugins-good:soup=enabled
+      -Dgst-plugins-good:soup-lookup-dep=true
 outputs:
   gstreamerPath:
     description: 'Installation path'