[CI] Added ARM64-GCC-8 target (Ubuntu Bionic) (#2987)

* add ARM64-GCC-8 target

uses taiki-e/checkout-action@v1 instead of actions/checkout@v4 due to ubuntu bionic container not having new enough nodejs or glibc to run most github actions

does not build build Trace target due to ubuntu bionic not having the libzydis-dev package

adds cmake ppa for a newer cmake version that box64 requires

uses gcc-8 specifically (instead of bionic's default gcc-7) due to  historically better compatibility with box64 (and it has been used for years now by installation scripts and other ci such as https://github.com/Pi-Apps-Coders/box64-debs)

* comptibility for old glibc

* nodejs

* zstd

* exclude static build

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Co-authored-by: Yang Liu <numbksco@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index a6245124..d8c035e9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -25,12 +25,17 @@ on:
       - "CMakeLists.txt"
       - "**/*.yml"
 
+defaults:
+  run:
+    # needed on container images which could default to sh
+    shell: bash
+
 jobs:
   build:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        platform: [X64, RISCV, RK3588, ARM64, ANDROID, TERMUX, LARCH64, ANDROID_GLIBC, WOW64]
+        platform: [X64, RISCV, RK3588, ARM64, ANDROID, TERMUX, LARCH64, ANDROID_GLIBC, WOW64, ARM64-GCC-8]
         type: [Release, Trace, StaticBuild, Box32]
         os: [ubuntu-latest, ubuntu-22.04-arm]
         exclude:
@@ -68,20 +73,37 @@ jobs:
             type: StaticBuild
           - platform: WOW64
             type: Box32
+          - platform: ARM64-GCC-8
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+          - platform: ARM64-GCC-8
+            type: Trace
+          - platform: ARM64-GCC-8
+            type: StaticBuild
           - platform: ANDROID
             type: Trace
           - platform: TERMUX
             type: Trace
           - platform: LARCH64
             type: Trace
+        include:
+          - platform: ARM64-GCC-8
+            image: arm64v8/ubuntu:18.04
 
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    container:
+      image: ${{ matrix.image || '' }}
     steps:
       - name: "Checkout Box64 Repository"
+        if: ${{ matrix.platform != 'ARM64-GCC-8' }}
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
+      - name: "Checkout Box64 Repository (No NodeJS)"
+        if: ${{ matrix.platform == 'ARM64-GCC-8' }}
+        uses: taiki-e/checkout-action@v1
+
       - name: Get all the unique changed directory names
         id: changed-files-dir-names
+        if: ${{ matrix.platform != 'ARM64-GCC-8' }}
         uses: tj-actions/changed-files@ed68ef82c095e0d48ec87eccea555d944a631a4c # v46
         with:
           dir_names: "true"
@@ -139,9 +161,15 @@ jobs:
       - name: "Environment preparation"
         if: steps.early-exit.outcome == 'failure'
         run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
+          if [[ ${{ matrix.platform }} == 'ARM64-GCC-8' ]]; then
+            apt-get update
+            apt install -y sudo
+          else
+            sudo apt-get update
+            zydis_package=libzydis-dev
+          fi
           if [[ ${{ matrix.platform }} != 'X64' && ${{ matrix.platform }} != 'RISCV' && ${{ matrix.platform }} != 'LARCH64' ]]; then
-            sudo apt-get -y install git cmake make python3 patchelf libzydis-dev
+            sudo apt-get -y install git cmake make python3 patchelf $zydis_package
             if [[ ${{ matrix.platform }} == 'ANDROID' || ${{ matrix.platform }} == 'TERMUX' ]]; then
               sudo apt-get -y install p7zip
               wget -q https://dl.google.com/android/repository/android-ndk-r26b-linux.zip
@@ -164,6 +192,18 @@ jobs:
               wget -q https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw/releases/download/${LLVM_MINGW_VERSION}/llvm-mingw-${LLVM_MINGW_VERSION}-ucrt-ubuntu-22.04-aarch64.tar.xz
               tar -xf llvm-mingw-${LLVM_MINGW_VERSION}-ucrt-ubuntu-22.04-aarch64.tar.xz
               echo "MINGW_COMPILER_PATH=$PWD/llvm-mingw-${LLVM_MINGW_VERSION}-ucrt-ubuntu-22.04-aarch64/bin" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+            elif [[ ${{ matrix.platform }} == 'ARM64-GCC-8' ]]; then
+              # some of these dependencies may be unnecessary to explicitly install depending on the image
+              sudo apt-get -y install git software-properties-common lsb-release \
+              wget curl build-essential autoconf automake \
+              pkg-config ca-certificates \
+              python3 make gettext zstd \
+              gcc-8 g++-8
+              sudo add-apt-repository ppa:theofficialgman/cmake-bionic -y
+              sudo apt update
+              sudo apt install -y cmake
+              echo "BOX64_PLATFORM_MARCRO=-DARM64=1" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+              echo "BOX64_COMPILER=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-8" >> $GITHUB_ENV
             else
               sudo apt-get -y install git gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu
               echo "BOX64_PLATFORM_MARCRO=-D${{ matrix.platform }}=1" >> $GITHUB_ENV