add compile workflows

.github/actions/action.yml

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+name: 'Test compile for Arduino'
+description: 'Compile sketches or Arduino library examples for one board type using arduino-cli and check for errors'
+author: 'Armin Joachimsmeyer'
+inputs:
+  cli-version:
+    description: 'Version of arduino-cli to use when building. Current (8/2022) one is 0.26.0.'
+    default: 'latest'
+    required: false
+
+  sketch-names:
+    description: 'Comma sepatated list of patterns or filenames (without path) of the sketch(es) to test compile. Useful if the sketch is a *.cpp or *.c file or only one sketch in the repository should be compiled.'
+    default: '*.ino'
+    required: false
+
+  sketch-names-find-start:
+    description: 'The start directory to look for the sketch-names to test compile. Can be a path like "digistump-avr/libraries/*/examples/C*/" .'
+    default: '.'
+    required: false
+
+  arduino-board-fqbn:
+    #In the Arduino IDE, the fqbn is printed in the first line of the verbose output for compilation as parameter -fqbn=... for the "arduino-builder -dump-prefs" command
+    description: 'Fully Qualified Board Name of the Arduino board. You may add a suffix behind the fqbn with "|" to specify one board for e.g. different compile options like arduino:avr:uno|trace.'
+    default: 'arduino:avr:uno'
+    required: false
+
+  arduino-platform:
+    description: 'Comma separated list of platform specifiers, if you require a fixed version like "arduino:avr@1.8.2" or do not want the specifier derived from the 2 first elements of the arduino-board-fqbn or need more than one core. The suffix "@latest" is always removed.'
+    default: ''
+    required: false
+
+  platform-default-url:
+    description: 'The platform URL for the required board description if arduino-board-fqbn does not start with "arduino:" and not explicitly specified by platform-url.'
+    default: ''
+    required: false
+
+  platform-url:
+    description: 'The platform URL for the required board description if arduino-board-fqbn does not start with "arduino:".'
+    default: ''
+    required: false
+
+  required-libraries:
+    description: 'Comma separated list of arduino library names required for compiling the sketches / examples for this board.'
+    default: ''
+    required: false
+
+  sketches-exclude:
+    description: 'Comma or space separated list of complete names of all sketches / examples to be excluded in the build for this board.'
+    default: ''
+    required: false
+
+  build-properties:
+    description: |
+      Build parameter like -DDEBUG for each example specified or for all examples, if example name is "All". In json format.
+      For example: build-properties: '{ "WhistleSwitch": "-DDEBUG -DFREQUENCY_RANGE_LOW", "SimpleFrequencyDetector": "-DINFO" }'
+    default: ''
+    required: false
+
+  extra-arduino-cli-args:
+    description: |
+      This string is passed verbatim without double quotes to the arduino-cli compile commandline as last argument before the filename.
+      See https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/commands/arduino-cli_compile/ for compile parameters.
+    default: ''
+    required: false
+
+  extra-arduino-lib-install-args:
+    description: |
+      This string is passed verbatim without double quotes to the arduino-cli lib install commandline as last argument before the library names.
+      It can be used e.g. to suppress dependency resolving for libraries by using --no-deps as argument string.
+    default: ''
+    required: false
+
+  set-build-path:
+    description: 'Flag to set the build directory (arduino-cli paramer --build-path) to /build subdirectory of compiled sketches.'
+    default: 'false'
+    required: false
+
+  debug-compile:
+    description: 'If set to "true" the action logs verbose compile output even during successful builds'
+    default: ''
+    required: false
+
+  debug-install:
+    description: 'If set to "true" the action logs verbose arduino-cli output during installation'
+    default: ''
+    required: false
+
+runs:
+  using: 'composite'
+  steps:
+    - name: Compile all sketches / examples using the bash script arduino-test-compile.sh
+      env:
+          # Passing parameters to the script by setting the appropriate ENV_* variables.
+          # Direct passing as arguments is not possible because of blanks in the arguments.
+          ENV_CLI_VERSION: ${{ inputs.cli-version }}
+          ENV_SKETCH_NAMES: ${{ inputs.sketch-names }}
+          ENV_SKETCH_NAMES_FIND_START: ${{ inputs.sketch-names-find-start }}
+          ENV_ARDUINO_BOARD_FQBN: ${{ inputs.arduino-board-fqbn }}
+          ENV_ARDUINO_PLATFORM: ${{ inputs.arduino-platform }}
+          ENV_PLATFORM_DEFAULT_URL: ${{ inputs.platform-default-url }}
+          ENV_PLATFORM_URL: ${{ inputs.platform-url }}
+          ENV_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES: ${{ inputs.required-libraries }}
+          ENV_SKETCHES_EXCLUDE: ${{ inputs.sketches-exclude }}
+          ENV_BUILD_PROPERTIES: ${{ inputs.build-properties }}
+          ENV_EXTRA_ARDUINO_CLI_ARGS: ${{ inputs.extra-arduino-cli-args }}
+          ENV_EXTRA_ARDUINO_LIB_INSTALL_ARGS: ${{ inputs.extra-arduino-lib-install-args }}
+          ENV_SET_BUILD_PATH: ${{ inputs.set-build-path }}
+          ENV_DEBUG_COMPILE: ${{ inputs.debug-compile }}
+          ENV_DEBUG_INSTALL:  ${{ inputs.debug-install }}
+
+      run: ${{ github.action_path }}/arduino-test-compile.sh
+      shell: bash
+
+branding:
+  icon: 'eye'
+  color: 'red'