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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: James Turner <james@flightgear.org>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+
+variables:
+  BUILD_DIR: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/build"
+  PREFIX_DIR: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/dist"
+  
+  # create a root dir *above* the Simgear checkout, otherwise CMake
+  # complains about INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES being the source dir
+  WIN_FG_DIR: $CI_BUILDS_DIR\flightgear
+
+  # FIXME detect this using vswhere 
+  VS160COMNTOOLS: "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\BuildTools\\Common7\\Tools"
+  VCVARSALL: "${VS160COMNTOOLS}\\..\\..\\VC\\Auxiliary\\Build\\vcvarsall.bat"
+  VCVARSPLATFORM: "x64"
+  VCVARSVERSION: "14.29.30133"
+
+
+linux-build:
+  image: registry.gitlab.com/flightgear/flightgear
+  stage: build
+  rules:
+    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE != "schedule"
+  script:
+    - cmake -B $BUILD_DIR -S $CI_PROJECT_DIR -G Ninja 
+      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo 
+      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX_DIR
+    - cmake --build $BUILD_DIR
+    - cmake --build $BUILD_DIR --target install
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+      - dist
+  needs:
+    - project: flightgear/simgear
+      job: linux-build
+      artifacts: true
+      ref: next
+
+
+windows-build:
+  stage: build
+  tags:
+    - windows
+  before_script:
+    - Invoke-Expression -Command .gitlab\vcvarsall.ps1
+
+  # relocate our upstream deps outside the source dir, otherwise
+  # CMake gets sad.
+    - Move-Item -Path $CI_PROJECT_DIR\boost $WIN_FG_DIR\boost
+    - Move-Item -Path $CI_PROJECT_DIR\msvc140 $WIN_FG_DIR\msvc140
+    - ls
+  script:
+    - cmake -B $env:BUILD_DIR -S $env:CI_PROJECT_DIR -G Ninja 
+      -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
+      -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$env:PREFIX_DIR
+      -D MSVC_3RDPARTY_ROOT=$WIN_FG_DIR
+      -DOSG_FSTREAM_EXPORT_FIXED:BOOL=ON
+    - cmake --build $BUILD_DIR
+    - cmake --build $BUILD_DIR --target install
+  needs:
+    - project: flightgear/simgear
+      job: windows-build
+      ref: next
+      artifacts: true
+    - project: flightgear/windows-3rd-party
+      job: windows_build_msvc140
+      ref: master
+      artifacts: true
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+      - dist
+
+macos-build:
+  stage: build
+  tags:
+    - saas-macos-medium-m1
+  image: macos-12-xcode-14
+  rules:
+    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE != "schedule"
+  before_script:
+      - export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALLED_DEPENDENTS_CHECK=1
+      - export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP=1
+      - brew install ninja cmake boost
+  script:
+    - cmake -B $BUILD_DIR -S $CI_PROJECT_DIR -G Ninja 
+      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo 
+      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX_DIR
+      -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=arm64
+    - cmake --build $BUILD_DIR
+    - cmake --build $BUILD_DIR --target install
+  needs:
+    - project: flightgear/simgear
+      job: macos-build
+      ref: next
+      artifacts: true
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+      - dist
+  cache:
+    paths:
+      - $BUILD_DIR
+
+macos-x64-build:
+  stage: build
+  tags:
+    - saas-macos-medium-m1
+  image: macos-12-xcode-14
+  rules:
+    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE != "schedule"
+  before_script:
+      - export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALLED_DEPENDENTS_CHECK=1
+      - export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP=1
+      - brew install ninja cmake boost
+  script:
+    - cmake -B $BUILD_DIR -S $CI_PROJECT_DIR -G Ninja 
+      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo 
+      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX_DIR
+      -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=x86_64
+
+    - cmake --build $BUILD_DIR
+    - cmake --build $BUILD_DIR --target install
+  needs:
+    - project: flightgear/simgear
+      job: macos-x64-build
+      ref: next
+      artifacts: true
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+      - dist
+  cache:
+    paths:
+      - $BUILD_DIR
+
+# test:doc:
+#   image: registry.gitlab.com/ahayzen/home-dash-alpha-g1
+#   stage: test
+#   rules:
+#     - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE != "schedule"
+#   script:
+#     - cargo test --all-features --doc
+#     - cargo test --all-features --all-targets
+#   cache:
+#     paths:
+#       - .cargo
+#     policy: pull
+#   dependencies:
+#     - build
+
+
+# run tests using the binary built before
+test:
+  image: registry.gitlab.com/flightgear/flightgear
+  stage: test
+  needs:
+    - job: linux-build
+  script:
+    - cd $BUILD_DIR
+    - ls
+    - ./bin/fgfs_test_suite
+