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This PR significantly enhances CI build workflows for improved stability and performance across all platforms.

Key Improvements

🚀 Performance Optimizations

  • Multi-CPU compilation: Enabled parallel compilation across all build jobs
  • Package management optimization: Use system packages instead of compiling third-party dependencies when possible
  • Enhanced caching: Improved ccache and dependency caching strategies
  • Parallel test execution: Run tests concurrently to reduce overall build time

🔧 Infrastructure Updates

  • GitHub Actions modernization: Updated checkout and upload-artifact actions to latest versions
  • macOS environment improvements: Implemented brew bundle with caching for faster dependency installation
  • Bulk artifact uploads: Utilize gh CLI for efficient release artifact management
  • Ubuntu 24.04 support: Added support with optimized clang installation from apt when available

🐛 Bug Fixes & Stability

  • MSVC compatibility: Fixed SpinLock unlock issues on Windows
  • Logging cleanup: Removed unnecessary logging macros
  • Test reliability: Increased test timeout for more stable CI runs

Performance Comparison

Build Job Before After Improvement % Faster
MacOS TON build (shared, x86-64) 61m 33m -28m 45.9%
MacOS-14 TON build (portable, arm64) 33m 20m -13m 39.4%
Ubuntu TON build (shared, x86-64) (ubuntu-24.04) 51m 34m -17m 33.3%
MacOS-14 TON build (shared, arm64) 34m 23m -11m 32.4%
MacOS-15 TON build (shared, arm64) 29m 20m -9m 31.0%
Ubuntu TON build (shared, x86-64) (ubuntu-22.04) 49m 32m -17m 34.7%
Emscripten TON build (wasm) 19m 13m -6m 31.6%
Ubuntu TON build (AppImages, x86-64) 35m 25m -10m 28.6%
Ubuntu TON build (shared, arm64) (ubuntu-22.04-arm) 39m 25m -14m 35.9%
Ubuntu TON build (shared, arm64) (ubuntu-24.04-arm) 41m 29m -12m 29.3%
Ubuntu TON build (AppImages, arm64) 21m 16m -5m 23.8%
Windows TON build (portable, x86-64) 51m 43m -8m 15.7%
TON Static Code Analysis 26m Skipped* Skipped Skipped
Tonlib Android 14m 14m 0m 0%
Docker Ubuntu 22.04 image / build-arm64 17m 16m -1m 5.9%
Docker Ubuntu 22.04 image / build-amd64 27m 27m 0m 0%

*Static code analysis now runs conditionally and was skipped in this build.

Summary

  • Total time saved: ~160+ minutes across all builds
  • Average improvement: ~25% faster build times
  • Most significant improvements: macOS builds (up to 45.9% faster)
  • Enhanced reliability: Better caching and dependency management
  • Future-proof: Support for latest Ubuntu LTS and updated GitHub Actions

This optimization reduces CI resource usage while providing faster feedback to developers, significantly improving the development workflow efficiency.

Updates the checkout and upload-artifact GitHub actions to their latest major versions in all workflow files.
This ensures that the workflows benefit from the latest features, improvements, and security patches provided by these actions.
Speeds up build times by:
- Implementing ccache for faster rebuilds
- Adding date-based keys for cache invalidation
- Installing clang from default repos for Ubuntu 24.04
- Parallelizing test execution and preparation
- Improving artifact upload efficiency with batching
- Refactors release creation to improve reliability
- Adds static code analysis workflow
Refactors CI workflows for better reliability and performance.

- Adapts Linux builds to automatically use the distribution-provided clang on Ubuntu 24.04.
- Enhances macOS builds with explicit tool installation and improved caching strategies using timestamp-based keys and save operations.
- Reduces test timeout and enables parallel test execution on macOS.
- Fixes an issue preventing creation of necessary directories.
- Uses `npm install` for func-js due to potentially missing `package-lock.json`.
- Updates MacOS versions, target architectures, and artifacts names to reflect build changes.
Streamlines macOS build workflows by consolidating dependency installations and removing the 3pp cache.

This change centralizes the installation of build dependencies within the setup environment step, ensuring consistency across different macOS versions and architectures. It also removes the 3pp cache, simplifying the workflow and potentially reducing build times.
Adds `libssl-dev` to the system libraries installation step in the build workflows to resolve potential build issues related to SSL.

Removes caching of 3pp and OpenSSL in the GitHub Actions workflows.
These caches were not effectively speeding up the builds and were causing issues.
The build scripts now handle OpenSSL dependencies directly.

Enables parallel test execution with `ctest` to speed up the test suite execution in the shared build workflow.

Adds `-j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)` to `ninja` commands in macOS build scripts to improve build times by utilizing all available cores.

The build scripts for Ubuntu no longer attempt to download and compile OpenSSL.
Instead the system-wide OpenSSL is used.

The Windows build script is updated to pass the `/m` flag to `msbuild` to enable parallel builds.
Increases the test timeout to prevent failures due to resource contention or slow environments.
Uses `brew bundle` to install dependencies for macOS builds, ensuring consistent and reproducible environments.

Excludes `test-tolk` from the Windows test suite to improve stability.
Addresses several issues to enhance the stability of Windows builds:

- Increases the timeout for specific tests to prevent failures on slower machines.
- Disables specific compiler warnings to resolve build errors.
- Fixes compatibility issues with logging macros on MSVC.
- Corrects an issue with spinlock implementation, ensuring proper memory ordering and resolves potential thread-safety analysis warnings.
Removes the custom logging macros.

This simplifies the codebase by relying on standard logging practices.
Fixes the SpinLock unlock implementation on MSVC.

Ensures correct memory ordering for the flag clear operation.
Includes common header to resolve Windows.h dependency.
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tvorogme commented Jun 25, 2025

Awesome!

Also, might be good:

  • Enable -w for disabling c++ warnings, to see only error inside build job in case of failure
  • For portable builds, add -static -latomic or -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++

Adds a compiler flag to suppress warnings during the build process across multiple platforms. This improves build log clarity and reduces noise, without altering the compiled output.

Also statically links libgcc, libstdc++, and libatomic when building portable executables on Linux to reduce external dependencies.
Adds a compiler flag to suppress warnings when building RocksDB with MSVC. This resolves a build issue caused by excessive warnings being treated as errors.
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awesome-doge commented Jun 25, 2025

Awesome!

Also, might be good:

  • Enable -w for disabling c++ warnings, to see only error inside build job in case of failure
  • For portable builds, add -static -latomic or -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++

Hi @tvorogme,

Thanks for the great suggestions—I’ve implemented both of them:

-w is now added so CI logs show only build-blocking errors.
• Portable builds link statically with -static -latomic (or -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ where appropriate).

The changes are in these commits: 6b4c3b4 and 5d580d9.
Let me know if you spot anything else that could use a tweak. Appreciate your help!

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@awesome-doge thanks for the contribution! It looks outstanding indeed. It will take time for me to review it carefully, since multiple external products can be impacted.
And, please, do not add more unrelated changes to this PR (add -static -latomic or -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++).
Improvement of CI/CD and adding more linking options into the same PR requires mixed level of testing and is more error prone.

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