Run using github workflow actions?

[rboston628]

Forgive my ignorance. I've setup a repo to use CxxTest. I would like to setup a github workflow to automatically run the tests for me when a PR is created. The repo is C++ and compiled from makefiles, and everything within github's runner works fine until it gets to creating the tests, and the runners can not execute the cxxtestgen command. I need to instruct the github runners to install cxxtestgen in order to create and run the tests. Is there a standard or recommended process for writing an action to accomplish this?

[rboston628]

I can partially answer my own question. The following .yml was able to work using a standard makefile:

name: C/C++ CI

on:
  push:
    branches: [ "main" ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ "main" ]

jobs:
  build-and-test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    - name: install cxxtest
      run: sudo apt install -y cxxtest
    - name: make program
      run: make
    - name: make tests
      run: make tests
    - name: run tests
      run: ./tests/tests.out

Further, if specifying a macos runner, replacing sudo apt install -y cxxtest with brew install cxxtest works just fine.

However, I have not figured out how to download on windows.

[rboston628]

Configuring to enable testing on windows runners could be achieved if this code base were available chocolatey. This is apparently the preferred way for github runners to download dependencies.