Build MAUI app using GitHub actions

[maxkoshevoi]

I'm trying to build my maui app, but action fails when installing workload: https://github.com/maxkoshevoi/NureTimetable/runs/3894450932?check_suite_focus=true

Is there something I'm missing?

[Psypher9]

Have you tried building on a Windows machine? Just to see if the workload is able to install.

[maxkoshevoi]

Workload installs on my Windows machine without any issues, and project starts building. But project itself still has some issues, so build fails, but that's on me to figure out.

[charleszh-dev]

Hi, here are some repos that may help you.

• WeatherTwentyOne
• Booster

[maxkoshevoi]

Issue was that I was using linux agent 🤦‍♂️

Following action does the trick:

name: Build

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

jobs: 
  build:
    name: Build ${{ matrix.configuration }}
    runs-on: windows-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        configuration: ['Debug', 'Release']
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Setup .NET
      uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1
      with:
        dotnet-version: 6.x
    - name: Install workload
      run: dotnet workload install maui-android
    - name: Setup Java SDK
      uses: actions/setup-java@v1
      with:
        java-version: 17
    - name: Build
      run: dotnet build -c ${{ matrix.configuration }}

[Ghostbird]

Note that this answer is pretty old. Nowadays you can build maui-android on Linux without issues. Even maui-windows is available on Linux, but I haven't tried to see if it actually works.

[IT-VBFK]

Hi there

Is it possible somehow to build a MAUI project for windows target on linux? Maybe a workaround with mono/msbuild? For me it would be fine to add this extra "overhead"..

Reason is, that I want to get rid of the pretty unnecessary windows vm (which does my CI/CD work today) in my day job.

[Ghostbird]

Have you tried dotnet install maui-windows on your Linux machine and seen how far that got you? I saw it become available recently, but haven't tried it yet.