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Cirrus CI integration
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GitLab CI shared runners only provide a docker environment running on Linux.
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While it is possible to provide private runners for non-Linux platforms this
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is not something most contributors/maintainers will wish to do.
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To work around this limitation, we take advantage of `Cirrus CI`_'s free
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offering: more specifically, we use the `cirrus-run`_ script to trigger Cirrus
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CI jobs from GitLab CI jobs so that Cirrus CI job output is integrated into
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the main GitLab CI pipeline dashboard.
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There is, however, some one-time setup required. If you want FreeBSD and macOS
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builds to happen when you push to your GitLab repository, you need to
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* set up a GitHub repository for the project, eg. ``yourusername/qemu``.
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This repository needs to exist for cirrus-run to work, but it doesn't need to
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be kept up to date, so you can create it and then forget about it;
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* enable the `Cirrus CI GitHub app`_ for your GitHub account;
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* sign up for Cirrus CI. It's enough to log into the website using your GitHub
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account;
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* grab an API token from the `Cirrus CI settings`_ page;
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* it may be necessary to push an empty ``.cirrus.yml`` file to your github fork
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for Cirrus CI to properly recognize the project. You can check whether
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Cirrus CI knows about your project by navigating to:
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``https://cirrus-ci.com/yourusername/qemu``
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* in the *CI/CD / Variables* section of the settings page for your GitLab
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repository, create two new variables:
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* ``CIRRUS_GITHUB_REPO``, containing the name of the GitHub repository
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created earlier, eg. ``yourusername/qemu``;
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* ``CIRRUS_API_TOKEN``, containing the Cirrus CI API token generated earlier.
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This variable **must** be marked as *Masked*, because anyone with knowledge
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of it can impersonate you as far as Cirrus CI is concerned.
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Neither of these variables should be marked as *Protected*, because in
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general you'll want to be able to trigger Cirrus CI builds from non-protected
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branches.
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Once this one-time setup is complete, you can just keep pushing to your GitLab
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repository as usual and you'll automatically get the additional CI coverage.
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.. _Cirrus CI GitHub app: https://github.com/marketplace/cirrus-ci
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.. _Cirrus CI settings: https://cirrus-ci.com/settings/profile/
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.. _Cirrus CI: https://cirrus-ci.com/
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.. _cirrus-run: https://github.com/sio/cirrus-run/
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