Setup appveyor builds of binaries

[KOLANICH]

Appveyor allows automatically building binaries after every commit and publishing artifacts.

[twogood]

Thanks for your suggestion! Where would I put these artifacts?

[KOLANICH]

Appveyor stores them itself (you only need to specify in appveyor.yaml what to store) and allows direct links to the artifacts from the latest build, if their name doesn't change from build to build.

[twogood]

I don't have any appveyor.yaml, it's all configured in the web interface. It seems like there are three types of artefacts allowed:

1. Web deploy package
2. Elastic Beanstalk package
3. Octopus package

There is also an "auto" option, but I don't know if that allows any other type of artefact?

Which artifact is suitable for unshield? Octopus? Can you help me create a compatible artefact with CMake?

[twogood]

Maybe it is possible to create a .msi package like this?
http://dominoc925.blogspot.com/2016/09/create-windows-installer-using-cmake.html

[KOLANICH]

It seems like there are three types of artefacts allowed:

Any types of artifacts are allowed. How to setup build you can see here: https://github.com/jpype-project/jpype/blob/devel/appveyor.yml

(not a very good example, since some artifacts are uploaded manually rather than using artifacts dict in appveyor.yml)

[twogood]

Seems I could specify the .exe as an artifact!
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/twogood/unshield/build/artifacts

[twogood]

Maybe fixed by #105

[KOLANICH]

The build job does not contain any artifacts.

[twogood]

The build job does not contain any artifacts.

Yet! :)

[TheComputerGuy96]

I see this project has switched to GitHub Actions which does provide artifacts after logging in to GitHub (which means the issue is effectively solved)

GitHub releases don't have any artifacts though (which makes things harder for Windows users) so there's still some work to do

[twogood]

Yeah, what is missing is putting the artifacts somwhere permanent...