pre-compile .dll for candleAPI

[ediukill]

@HubertD Hi, would it be possible to get a pre-compiled .dll for the candle API

[rusefillc]

@mbehensky would you be available and interested to make a release with a pre-compiled .dll in your fork?

[rusefillc]

@Andrei-Errapart would you be available and interested to make a release with a pre-compiled .dll in your fork?

[Andrei-Errapart]

I think a separate directory would be useful, a'la "prebuilt/MSVS2019/Debug"; this directory would be automatically updated by the script "publish_dlls.bat". I have MSVS 2019 and MSVS 2022 available at the moment.

What do you think?

[rusefillc]

I would not push .dll into git repo, I think it should be just a github 'release' once in a while

for snapshot the coolest way would be to have github actions with a windows agent (free github feature) attaching build artifact

[Andrei-Errapart]

Thanx for the hint! Learning something new every day. Will try it out ASAP.

[rusefillc]

@Andrei-Errapart i have no idea what's the level of effort to install a compatible compiler on a Windows agent - most of my experience is with linux agents. Just want to make sure that the excellent option of automated DLL would not postpone the great-for-now option of a one time manual DLL release.

[Andrei-Errapart]

Just released. Let me know if there's anything missing.

My apologies for all the waiting.

[Andrei-Errapart]

Enabled issue tracking on my fork as well.

[rusefillc]

Just to spell it out DLL is located at https://github.com/Andrei-Errapart/candle_dll/releases