Add a compilation of the project as a static library

[ihhub]

We would like to integration continuous deployment for the project and one of the goal as of the project is to create it as a static library for end developer who doesn't have specific libraries/technologies on his/her PC. We use Travis-CI as virtual machine server to continuous integration for MacOS and Linux while AppVeyor is for Windows. We use makefile to project compilation for these platforms.
We need to add an ability to compile static library of the project which would go as a part of deployment for releases.

[ihhub]

Hi @yannlabou would you like to have a look at this? It should be interesting to implement. I can help with deployment part as I know how to do it.

[yannlabou]

Sounds interesting. Will look deeper at it tonight.

[ihhub]

👍

[ihhub]

@yannlabou you could have a look into this project which I maintain for check how deployment is done.

[yannlabou]

Which part of https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2 should I particularly check? Further it will be better to create to separate issues for the creation of a static and a dynamic library.

[ihhub]

@yannlabou I referred this project as an example for deployment part. In .travis.yml I've added:

# blocklist
branches:
  except:
  - /^fheroes2-windows-.*$/
  - /^fheroes2-linux-.*$/
  - /^fheroes2-osx-.*$/

to do not run job on specific tags.
The this part is responsible for deployment preparation and deployment itself:

      before_deploy:
        - export TRAVIS_TAG=fheroes2-linux-sdl1-$TRAVIS_BUILD_NUMBER
        - git tag $TRAVIS_TAG
<---- HERE I create a zip archive for deployment --->
        - zip fheroes2_linux_sdl1.zip fheroes2 LICENSE script/linux/install_sdl_1.sh script/linux/install_sdl_2.sh script/demo/demo_linux.sh
      deploy:
        provider: releases
        api_key: "$GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN" <--- HERE I created environment variable inside Travis
        file: "fheroes2_linux_sdl1.zip"
        skip_cleanup: true
        on:
          branch: master <--- HERE we deploy only on master branch

[ihhub]

For appveyor.yml:

skip_tags: true

to do not build on new tags.

Prepare files for deployment (zip archive):

after_build:
  - cmd: if "%platform%"=="x86" cd C:\projects\fheroes2\Release
  - cmd: if "%platform%"=="x64" cd C:\projects\fheroes2\x64\Release
  - cmd: 7z a fheroes2.zip fheroes2.exe SDL.dll SDL_mixer.dll
  - cmd: if "%platform%"=="x86" xcopy /Y /s "fheroes2.zip" ".."
  - cmd: if "%platform%"=="x64" xcopy /Y /s "fheroes2.zip" "..\.."
  - cmd: cd C:\projects\fheroes2
  - cmd: 7z a fheroes2.zip script\demo\demo.bat LICENSE

Do deployment:

deploy:
  release: fheroes2-windows-$(appveyor_build_version)-$(platform)
  description: $(APPVEYOR_REPO_COMMIT_MESSAGE)
  provider: GitHub
  auth_token: <-- HERE this is encrypted token manually created
    secure: 0KcyoHsROl98QBsNcB+so6hegLvgWZ0R2zYammwgqdDyVXkNDejMjiDpr5sqDnx9
  artifact: /.*\.zip/ <-- HERE deploy all files with zip extension
  draft: false
  prerelease: false
  on:
    branch: master <-- HERE only master branch commits

[ihhub]

Moreover, I'll create a deployment account for this project soon which will be responsible for all this stuff.

[ihhub]

Okay, I've created a deployment account for this project.