Setup ANGLE

This repository contains a JavaScript action to setup ANGLE in your Github Actions workflows. It detects the platform of your runners and install a pre-built branch of ANGLE accordingly.

- uses: erlangsters/setup-angle@v1
  with:
    angle-branch: chromium/5615

Note that ANGLE identifies releases by "branch" rather than "version". Additionally, because ANGLE is not needed on Linux, this action supports only macOS and Windows.

The pre-built binaries used by this action are the ones maintained by the Erlangsters community. See the ANGLE builder for more information.

Written by the Erlangsters community and released under the MIT license.

XXX: Write the ANGLE builder. Manual builds were used for the time being.

XXX: Fix the branch/commit temporary workaround.

Basic usage

No input is required to use this action and therefore the most basic usage is the following.

- uses: erlangsters/setup-angle@v1

It will simply use the most recent available branch of ANGLE and install just that.

Of course, you may specify a given branch with the branch input field.

- uses: erlangsters/setup-angle@v1
  with:
    angle-branch: fdff117

In this example, the action will attempt to install the fdff117 branch. If that branch is not available, the workflow will fail.

The action provides two outputs:

• angle-branch – The ANGLE branch that was actually installed.
• angle-location – The absolute path to the ANGLE installation directory, which contains the include/ and lib/ folders (and bin/ on Windows for the DLLs).

You can use these outputs in subsequent workflow steps to reference the installed ANGLE files as needed.

Available branches

Note

Temporarily, instead of "branch name", it uses commit hash. Later, it will look like chromium/7285. I don't know which branch commit fdff117 corresponds to, however, it's commit pushed in July 2025.

The available ANGLE branches are:

• fdff117

For now, only one build of ANGLE is available.

Typical example

This Github action was primarly developped to easily compile (and distribute) Erlang and Elixir based applications that use the EGL binding and one of the OpenGL bindings.

Here is how it's meant to be typically used in your workflows.

- id: angle
  uses: erlangsters/setup-angle@v1
- run: |
    export ANGLE_INCLUDE_DIR="${{ steps.angle.outputs.angle-location }}/include"
    export ANGLE_LIB_DIR="${{ steps.angle.outputs.angle-location }}/lib"
    rebar3 compile

XXX: Shows how it works on Windows once finalized.

It reads the location of the installed pre-built branch of ANGLE and sets up the environment variables needed by the build system.