In the not so distant past continuous integration (CI) hadn’t been a thing. Today, when you look into the open source world, GitHub Actions or similar offerings are ubiquitously used and that with good reason, one of which being that it’s free. GitHub Actions offer a good selection of OS images out-of-the-box, but sometimes you […]
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PATH Handling in GitHub Actions
While playing around with getting a specific version of MinGW to run within a GitHub Actions, I had to add the MinGW’s bin/ directory to the PATH environment variable. This isn’t as straight forward as it would be in a batch or PowerShell script, because each GitHub Actions step is executed in an isolated fashion, […]