Thanks to Dirk Lemstra and Dana-Prajea for providing a base to create this action.

To build the TypeScript source files Node.js, npm (installed with Node.js) and TypeScript compiler is required.

On Ubuntu the latest versions of the required tools can be installed with the following commands:

## https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md
$ curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_current.x | sudo -E bash -
$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

## update npm globally
$ npm -v
$ sudo npm install -g npm@latest

## install TypeScript globally vith npm
$ sudo npm install -g typescript@latest
$ tsc -v

## ... or install just for this repo
$ npm install

To build the source files and generate the required JavaScript files run the following command:

$ npm run build

This action signs files that are supported by signtool.exe with a code signing certificate that takes in a password. This action only works on Windows build environments.

Required The base64 encoded certificate generated with SHA256.

The following Windows PowerShell commands show how to generate a self-signed certificate for testing purposes:

• The PowerShell must be started with "Run as administrator".
• The -HashAlgorithm can be specified as either SHA1 or SHA256.

# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/pki/new-selfsignedcertificate
> $cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -Subject "CN=TestCert,[email protected]" -DnsName testcert.com -HashAlgorithm SHA256 -NotBefore 2022-07-29T20:00 -NotAfter 2032-07-29T20:00 -CertStoreLocation cert:\LocalMachine\My -type CodeSigning

# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.security/convertto-securestring
> $pwd = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "1234" -Force -AsPlainText

# path to certificate
> $path = "cert.pfx"

# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/pki/export-pfxcertificate
> Export-PfxCertificate -cert $cert -FilePath $path -Password $pwd

# copy this BASE64 line & paste into a GitHub Secret
> [convert]::ToBase64String((Get-Content -path $path -Encoding byte))

Required Certificate Password. Used to add to the machine store.

Optional This string is passed as the '/fd' adn '/td' option. Its default value is 'sha1'.

Optional The hash of the certificate. This and/or the cert_name is required for the signing to be successful.

The following command displays the Cert Hash(sha1) line even for SHA256:

# 'path' is declared above
> certutil -dump $path

WARNING: If the hash value is not in uppercase, then in the logs its uppercase value will be visible.

Optional This string is passed as the '/n' option. This and/or the cert_hash is required for the signing to be successful.

Optional Url of the timestamp server. Its default value is 'http://sha256timestamp.ws.symantec.com/sha256/timestamp'.

Required The folder that contains the libraries to sign.

Optional If "true" recursively search for DLL files.

Optional If "true" insert /debug option instead of the verbose /v option.

runs-on: windows-2019
steps:
  uses: OrhanKupusoglu/[email protected]
  with:
    cert_body: '${{ secrets.CERT_BODY }}'
    cert_pswd: '${{ secrets.CERT_PSWD }}'
    cert_algo: '${{ secrets.CERT_ALGO }}'
    cert_hash: '${{ secrets.CERT_HASH }}'
    folder: '${{ runner.workspace }}/build'
    debug: true