v0.1 release

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+name: Release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - '*.*'
+
+jobs:
+  ghrelease:
+    name: Publish sources on GitHub Release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Configure
+        run: |
+          ./bootstrap && ./configure
+          sudo apt install bzip3 -y
+      - name: Build source packages
+        run: |
+          make dist-gzip
+          make dist-zip
+          gzip -dk xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}.tar.gz
+          bzip3 xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}.tar
+          bzip2 -k xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}.tar
+          zstd -k xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}.tar
+      - name: Publish Release
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
+        with:
+          files: |
+            xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}.tar
+            xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}.tar.bz2
+            xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}.tar.bz3
+            xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}.tar.gz
+            xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}.tar.zst
+            xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}.zip
+      - name: Upload source package artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}
+          path: xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}.tar.gz
+  binaries:
+    name: Publish Binaries on GitHub Release
+    needs: [ ghrelease ]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        target:
+          - [ "x86_64-linux", "--enable-static --enable-lto", "" ]
+          - [ "x86_64", "CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc --host x86_64-w64-mingw32 --enable-static --enable-lto", "gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64" ]
+          - [ "i686", "CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc --host i686-w64-mingw32 --enable-static --enable-lto", "gcc-mingw-w64-i686" ]
+    steps:
+      - name: Download source package artifact
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}
+      - name: Extract source package
+        run: tar --strip-components=1 -xf xpar-${{ github.ref_name }}.tar.gz
+      - name: Install cross-compile dependencies
+        if: ${{ matrix.target[2] }}
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y ${{ matrix.target[2] }}
+      - name: Configure
+        run: ./configure --bindir=/ --program-suffix=-${{ matrix.target[0] }} ${{ matrix.target[1] }}
+      - name: Make
+        run: |
+          make
+          make DESTDIR=$(pwd)/output install-exec
+      - name: Publish binary
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
+        with:
+          files: |
+            output/xpar-${{ matrix.target[0] }}*

ChangeLog

@@ -1,5 +1,45 @@
 2024-10-14  Kamila Szewczyk  <kspalaiologos@gmail.com>
 
+	CI: binaries; configure: static linking mode
+
+	CI: tentative release process preparations
+
+	move read_header_from_map into a guard block
+
+	add strndup prototype to platform.h
+
+	try switching to mingw32/mingw64
+
+	Windows support
+
+	xpar-x86_64.asm - leading underscore fix
+
+	CI: aarch64 vanilla macos target, configure: fix leading underscores
+
+	settings specific to ELF targets
+
+	configure: cleaner flag handling, set up nasm in CI runners
+
+	rewrite platform-specific assembly using nasm.
+
+	xpar-x86_64.S: .att_syntax directive
+
+	fix a lax setmode check
+	also verify the presence of MS-specific io.h
+
+	x86_64 MacOS CI
+
+	add a rudimentary self-check target
+
+	retain only README.md in EXTRA_DIST
+
+	update the actions runner
+	fix the name of the bootstrap script
+
+	fill in v0.1 notes in NEWS, add development section in README.md
+
+	Add GNU-compatible changelog.
+
 	add copyright headers to shell scripts, portable gitlog-to-changelog
 	/bin/sh -> /usr/bin/env sh
 

NEWS

@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ v0.1 (pending release)
 - Supports joint mode and sharded mode for error and erasure correction.
 - Provides platform-specific code for x86_64, which can be enabled via
   the --enable-x86_64 configure option.
+- Tested on x86_64 Linux (Ubuntu), x86_64 and aarch64 MacOS and x86_64 and
+  i686 Windows.

configure.ac

@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ if test "x$enable_native" = "xyes"; then
   AX_APPEND_COMPILE_FLAGS([-march=native -mtune=native])
 fi
 
+AC_ARG_ENABLE([static], [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-static], [Enable static linking.])], [enable_static=$enableval], [enable_static=no])
+if test "x$enable_static" = "xyes"; then
+  AX_APPEND_LINK_FLAGS([-static])
+fi
+
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([lto], [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-lto], [Enable link-time optimisation.])], [enable_lto=$enableval], [enable_lto=no])
 if test "x$enable_lto" = "xyes"; then
   AX_APPEND_COMPILE_FLAGS([-flto])