Rust Release Binary Github Action

Automate publishing Rust build artifacts for GitHub releases through GitHub Actions (Based on go-release.action)

For an example/template repo see rust-build.test

This action will only work when you release a project as it uploads the artifacts to the release.

Environment variables

GITHUB_TOKEN  # Must be set to ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} - Allows uploading of artifacts to release
RUSTTARGET    # The rust target triple, see README for supported triples
EXTRA_FILES   # Space separated list of extra files to include in final output
SRC_DIR       # Relative path to the src dir (directory with Cargo.toml in) from root of project
ARCHIVE_TYPES # Type(s) of archive(s) to create, e.g. "zip" (default) or "zip tar.gz"; supports: (zip, tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz])
PRE_BUILD     # Path to script to run before build e.g. "pre.sh"
POST_BUILD    # Path to script to run after build e.g. "post.sh"
MINIFY        # If set to "true", the resulting binary will be stripped and compressed by UPX. ("false" by default)

Examples

Build windows and linux and upload as zip

# .github/workflows/release.yml

on:
  release:
    types: [created]

jobs:
  release:
    name: release ${{ matrix.target }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        target: [x86_64-pc-windows-gnu, x86_64-unknown-linux-musl]
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@master
      - name: Compile and release
        uses: rust-build/rust-build.action@latest
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          RUSTTARGET: ${{ matrix.target }}
          EXTRA_FILES: "README.md LICENSE"

Build windows, linux and mac with native zip types

Will build native binaries for windows, linux and mac. Windows will upload as zip, linux as .tar.gz and .tar.xz, mac as .zip.

# .github/workflows/release.yml

on:
  release:
    types: [created]

jobs:
  release:
    name: release ${{ matrix.target }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        include:
          - target: x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
            archive: zip
          - target: x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
            archive: tar.gz tar.xz
          - target: x86_64-apple-darwin
            archive: zip
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@master
      - name: Compile and release
        uses: rust-build/rust-build.action@latest
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          RUSTTARGET: ${{ matrix.target }}
          ARCHIVE_TYPES: ${{ matrix.archive }}

Many target triples do not work, I am working on adding more support

Supported targets

• x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
• x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
• wasm32-wasi
• x86_64-apple-darwin