Building TA-Lib with Github Actions
TA-Lib and Github Actions TA-Lib is a popular C-based technical analysis library, often used with a Python wrapper. GitHub Actions is a CI/CD platform to automate workflows. This blog uses it for automation. CI Steps for TA-Lib Add the following steps to your CI workflow: - name: Cache TA-Lib id: cache-talib uses: actions/cache@v2 with: path: ta-lib key: ${{ runner.os }}-talib - name: Build TA-Lib if: steps.cache-talib.outputs.cache-hit != 'true' run: | curl -L http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ta-lib/ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz -o ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz tar -xzf ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz cd ta-lib ./configure --prefix=/usr make - name: Install TA-Lib run: | cd ta-lib sudo make install Summary Cache TA-Lib: Speeds up builds by avoiding redundant downloads. Build TA-Lib: Downloads and compiles the source if not cached. Install TA-Lib: Installs the compiled library. This setup reduces CI runtime by caching and reusing builds. ...