Mage based building & ci

[ghost]

Hopefully anyone reading this knows what golang mage is and the problems it solves for cross platform building - especially on desktops.

I think a mage script will really help the pace and regressions.

A great example of using it is elastic beats repo.

https://github.com/elastic/beats

For with does,Mac and Linux there is a make file that checks mage is installed and them mage all the way from there.
You can do exactly the same in CI on Travis, appveyor, etc etc.

I would start with the basics like beats does and then extend from there.

They also can build and sign golang apps for desktop and build installers for both platforms ! All from golang.

Give it a look ...

[pchampio]

Thanks for your suggestion,
I didn't know Golang mage, and I like the fact that everything stays in Go.
Binaries building using Appveyor could be ✨. Doing it using Vagrant could also work.

[ghost]

I got a prototype working.
It inspects the current flutter installed and then pulls the correct flutter embedded binary based on the sha.

But for some reason I can't get the final cgo binding to work on my Mac when I follow the Mac sh script.

Maybe I should upload it to the fork and you can have a look to see what I am doing wrong.

I also want to add packaging and signing for Mac and Windows but first need help with cgo.

[pchampio]

Feel free to create a new Issue with the related CGO errors logs.

[zephylac]

Maybe this issue is linked to #31 and #29. It is not mage file but it should work.

[ghost]

@GeertJohan Sorry i have not had time to implement this. It is on my todo list still !!

[GeertJohan]

Cool. I'm also working on a tool; glutter, which uses go, flutter, maybe xgo to initialize and build a flutter application for desktop. But it's always good to have multiple ways to do it.

[pchampio]

The tool hover exist, Mage build is irrelevant.
CI can be good, it could enable us to have pre-build version of go-flutter. But CI is irrelevant in the same way flutter dosn't provide pre-build version of android flutter, users will add plugins wtich needs building, or needs static linking.., better build from scratch.