Setting up Travis deploy

travisDeploy.md

Setting up Travis deploy

1. Create an OAuth token from your profile settings

• under Developer select Personal access token
• generate a new one and copy it to the clipboard

2. On the travis page of the repository, go to settings --> More Options->Settings
3. Set a new Environment Variable called eg GITHUB_RELEASE_API_KEY or whatever u like, and copy the key
4. In the .travis.yaml file, under add something like that

before_deploy:
  - ARCHIVE_BASE_PATH=${INSTALL_DIR}
  - TARGET_VERSION=$(echo ${TRAVIS_TAG} | cut -d "v" -f2)
  - TARGET_FULL_NAME=${TARGET_NAME}-${TARGET_VERSION}-${CC}-${TRAVIS_OS_NAME}
  - INSTALL_ARCHIVE_FILENAME=${TARGET_FULL_NAME}.tgz
  - cd ${INSTALL_DIR}
  - tar -czvf ${INSTALL_ARCHIVE_FILENAME} ${TARGET_NAME}

deploy:
  provider: releases
  api_key:
    secure: ${GITHUB_RELEASE_API_KEY}
  file: ${ARCHIVE_BASE_PATH}/${INSTALL_ARCHIVE_FILENAME}
  skip_cleanup: true
  on:
    tags: true