ci: Add workflow to build and issue static binaries

The workflow builds natively for amd64 with LLVM library and use emulation to build for arm64 with LLVM as well. The result are two static binaries with their respective compressed archives. Signed-off-by: Mahe Tardy <[email protected]>
libbpf · Mar 18, 2023 · 4fe9758 · 4fe9758
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+name: Build and release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - 'v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+'
+
+env:
+  # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/tag/llvmorg-15.0.0
+  LLVM_arm64: clang+llvm-15.0.0-aarch64-linux-gnu
+  LLVM_amd64: clang+llvm-15.0.0-x86_64-linux-gnu-rhel-8.4 
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: Build static bpftool binary
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    env:
+      TARGETARCH: ${{ matrix.arch }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        arch: [arm64, amd64]
+
+    steps:
+      # arm64 build only needs curl to download the LLVM archive
+      - name: Install dependencies (arm64)
+        if: matrix.arch == 'arm64'
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y curl 
+
+      # amd64 needs curl and the dependencies to build bpftool
+      - name: Install dependencies (amd64)
+        if: matrix.arch == 'amd64'
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y curl git llvm clang gcc pkg-config zlib1g-dev libelf-dev libcap-dev binutils
+
+      # Optimize the download and extract, extraction is the most costly part.
+      # Cache is also downloaded and extracted, but you get a ~1 minute
+      # performance boost. This step is useless if the workflow is triggered
+      # less than every 7 days since cache will be removed, see:
+      # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/caching-dependencies-to-speed-up-workflows#usage-limits-and-eviction-policy
+      - name: Cache for "Download and extract compiled LLVM release"
+        uses: actions/cache@88522ab9f39a2ea568f7027eddc7d8d8bc9d59c8
+        id: cache-llvm
+        env:
+          LLVM: ${{ env[format('LLVM_{0}', matrix.arch)] }}
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.LLVM }}
+          key: ${{ env.LLVM }}
+
+      - name: Download and extract compiled LLVM release
+        if: steps.cache-llvm.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        env:
+          LLVM: ${{ env[format('LLVM_{0}', matrix.arch)] }}
+        run: |
+          curl -L https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmorg-15.0.0/${{ env.LLVM }}.tar.xz -O
+          tar xvf ${{ env.LLVM }}.tar.xz
+
+      - name: Checkout bpftool code
+        uses: actions/checkout@24cb9080177205b6e8c946b17badbe402adc938f
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+          path: 'bpftool'
+
+      - name: Build static bpftool natively for amd64
+        if: matrix.arch == 'amd64'
+        working-directory: 'bpftool'
+        env:
+          LLVM: ${{ env[format('LLVM_{0}', matrix.arch)] }}
+        run: make -j $(nproc) -C src V=1 \ 
+          EXTRA_CFLAGS=--static \
+          LLVM_CONFIG="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/${{ env.LLVM }}/bin/llvm-config" \
+          LLVM_STRIP="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/${{ env.LLVM }}/bin/llvm-strip"
+
+      - name: Strip binary (amd64)
+        if: matrix.arch == 'amd64'
+        run: strip bpftool/src/bpftool
+
+      - name: Set up QEMU
+        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@e81a89b1732b9c48d79cd809d8d81d79c4647a18
+        if: matrix.arch == 'arm64'
+        with:
+          platforms: arm64
+
+      # The emulated build leverage Docker and Ubuntu 22.04 container image
+      # distribution to have all the needed arm64 packages.
+      - name: Build static bpftool for arm64 with emulation
+        if: matrix.arch == 'arm64'
+        env:
+          LLVM: ${{ env[format('LLVM_{0}', matrix.arch)] }}
+        run:  |
+          docker run --platform linux/arm64 --rm -v $(pwd):/build ubuntu:22.04 \
+          bash -c "apt-get update && \
+                   apt-get install -y make pkg-config libelf-dev libcap-dev clang gcc llvm binutils && \
+                   cd build/bpftool && \
+                   LLVM_CONFIG=../../${{ env.LLVM }}/bin/llvm-config EXTRA_CFLAGS=--static make -j V=1 -C src && \
+                   strip src/bpftool"
+
+      - name: Upload Artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@0b7f8abb1508181956e8e162db84b466c27e18ce
+        with:
+          name: ${{ format('bpftool_{0}', matrix.arch) }}
+          path: bpftool/src/bpftool
+
+  draft-release:
+    name: Create a draft release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    needs: build
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - name: Download artifacts from build
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@9bc31d5ccc31df68ecc42ccf4149144866c47d8a
+
+      - name: Rename binaries and compress
+        run: |
+          tar -C bpftool_amd64 -I 'gzip -9' -cvf bpftool-${{ github.ref_name }}-amd64.tar.gz bpftool
+          tar -C bpftool_arm64 -I 'gzip -9' -cvf bpftool-${{ github.ref_name }}-arm64.tar.gz bpftool
+          mv bpftool_amd64/bpftool bpftool-amd64
+          mv bpftool_arm64/bpftool bpftool-arm64
+
+      - name: Create draft release and add artifacts
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@de2c0eb89ae2a093876385947365aca7b0e5f844
+        with:
+          draft: true
+          files: bpftool*