From 2c5e089f0a5040eceba9f772ff12606b31525174 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael McQuade <michael@giraffesyo.io>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:49:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat: releases ship prebuilt binaries, so CI can download the
 generator instead of compiling it

When release-please creates a release, a follow-up job cross-compiles
linux, darwin and windows on amd64 and arm64 and uploads tarballs plus
checksums.txt to it. A cold `go tool` run spends nearly all its time
compiling the generator and libopenapi; a download skips that.

`--version` reports the release tag, or the module version for
`go install` and `go tool` builds, so a pipeline can confirm which
generator it ran.
---
 .github/workflows/release-please.yml | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 cmd/root.go                          | 15 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-please.yml b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
index 7d7037f..34dd0ef 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
@@ -21,3 +21,54 @@ jobs:
       pull-requests: write # open and update the release PR
     steps:
       - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@45996ed1f6d02564a971a2fa1b5860e934307cf7 # v5.0.0
+        id: release
+
+    outputs:
+      release_created: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
+      tag_name: ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag_name }}
+
+  # Prebuilt binaries let CI download the generator instead of compiling it
+  # and libopenapi with `go tool` on every cold run.
+  binaries:
+    needs: release-please
+    if: ${{ needs.release-please.outputs.release_created == 'true' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 15
+    permissions:
+      contents: write # upload release assets
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+          ref: ${{ needs.release-please.outputs.tag_name }}
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-go@b7ad1dad31e06c5925ef5d2fc7ad053ef454303e # v7.0.0
+        with:
+          go-version-file: go.mod
+          cache: false
+
+      - name: Build
+        env:
+          TAG: ${{ needs.release-please.outputs.tag_name }}
+          CGO_ENABLED: '0'
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          mkdir dist
+          for target in linux/amd64 linux/arm64 darwin/amd64 darwin/arm64 windows/amd64 windows/arm64; do
+            GOOS=${target%/*} GOARCH=${target#*/}
+            name="openapi-client-generator_${TAG#v}_${GOOS}_${GOARCH}"
+            ext=""; [ "$GOOS" = windows ] && ext=".exe"
+            mkdir "$name"
+            GOOS=$GOOS GOARCH=$GOARCH go build -trimpath \
+              -ldflags "-s -w -X github.com/parallelworks/openapi-client-generator/cmd.version=${TAG}" \
+              -o "$name/openapi-client-generator$ext" .
+            cp LICENSE README.md "$name/"
+            tar -czf "dist/$name.tar.gz" "$name"
+          done
+          (cd dist && sha256sum -- *.tar.gz > checksums.txt)
+
+      - name: Upload
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          TAG: ${{ needs.release-please.outputs.tag_name }}
+        run: gh release upload "$TAG" dist/* --clobber --repo "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY"
diff --git a/cmd/root.go b/cmd/root.go
index 0f3cea0..cb66740 100644
--- a/cmd/root.go
+++ b/cmd/root.go
@@ -1,9 +1,24 @@
 package cmd
 
 import (
+	"runtime/debug"
+
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 )
 
+// version is set by the release build; `go install` and `go tool` builds
+// report their module version instead.
+var version string
+
+func init() {
+	if version == "" {
+		if info, ok := debug.ReadBuildInfo(); ok {
+			version = info.Main.Version
+		}
+	}
+	rootCmd.Version = version
+}
+
 var rootCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:   "openapi-client-generator",
 	Short: "Generate Go HTTP clients from OpenAPI 3.1 specs",