ci(onnx): build ONNX Runtime for macOS with the floor the app declares - #595
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`npm run build:mac` cannot package a macOS bundle today. Microsoft's `onnxruntime-osx-arm64-*.tgz` is built for macOS 14; `electron-builder.json5` declares `minimumSystemVersion: "13.0"`; `before-pack.cjs` refuses a payload that demands more than the floor. Correctly — the deployment target decides which symbols the linker resolves against the OS rather than emitting locally, which is how #515 stranded macOS 12 users with a dyld failure they reported as a denied permission. THERE IS NO VERSION THAT FITS. Every macOS arm64 release was checked, 1.20 through 1.29: 1.20.0 - 1.22.0 minos 13.3 1.23.0 minos 13.4 1.24.4 - 1.29.0 minos 14.0 The floor moved at 1.24 and never came back, and even the oldest is above 13.0. Lowering `ort`'s `api-27` feature does not help. Building is the only way to keep both macOS 13 support and webcam segmentation. MEASURED ON AN M1 before writing this. Shallow clone of the pinned tag with submodules 979 MB / 21 s, configure 24 s, build 10 min at `--parallel 4`. The result is `minos 13.0`, arm64, 21.7 MB against upstream's 36.7 MB — the difference is the CoreML execution provider, which this app does not use: `segmentation.rs` builds its session with no explicit provider, and webcam-segmentation.md records the CPU EP as a measured choice ("Inference p50, CPU EP: 3.575 ms — the CPU is faster"). It was then exercised through the real code path, not just inspected: `the_whole_loop_produces_a_mask_from_compose_frame_alone` — capture, inference, mask, composite — went from skipped ("ONNX Runtime absent") to passing with `ORT_DYLIB_PATH` pointed at it. WHAT THE WORKFLOW GUARDS. It reads the version from `scripts/fetch-onnxruntime.mjs` and the floor from `electron-builder.json5` rather than repeating either, so neither can drift. It then fails the build if `minos` is not the floor, and if `OrtGetApiBase` or the CPU provider is missing from the exports. A library that came out at 14.0 anyway would be worse than none: it would sail through packaging and fail at dyld time on the machines it was built to support. It drives CMake directly rather than upstream's `build.sh`, whose `build_args.py` needs Python 3.10+. The 3.10 in `find_package(Python 3.10)` is only real for the Python bindings; the one thing Python is genuinely needed for is generating the symbol export list, and `gen_def.py` parses on 3.9. IT DOES NOT PUBLISH. The workflow builds, verifies, and prints the exact `PINNED` entry to the job summary. Attaching the archive to a release and pasting that entry stays a human step, so the posture this script documents — immutable URL, SHA-256 verified before the archive is opened — survives. `fetch-onnxruntime.mjs` gains an optional per-target `baseUrl`; nothing points at it yet, so behaviour is unchanged until a maintainer decides to adopt it.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 6 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a GitHub Actions workflow that builds, validates, packages, attests, and uploads ONNX Runtime for macOS arm64. The workflow pins and validates the upstream source commit. The download script now supports per-target asset URLs. ChangesmacOS ONNX Runtime distribution
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The macOS ONNX Runtime build workflow may still time out before packaging completes under runner conditions represented by the outstanding timeout concern, so this should be explicitly resolved before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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GitHubActions->>RepositoryConfig: Read version and SOURCE_COMMIT
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- Line 157: Update the macOS staging step around the existing header copy to
also copy the ONNX Runtime LICENSE file into the staged artifact, preserving the
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- Line 93: Update the cache-key step around steps.pin and steps.floor to derive
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Two review findings, both real, and the second is a bug this repo already
had.
**The archive had no LICENSE, so adopting it would have failed.**
`fetch-onnxruntime.mjs:304` throws `LICENSE not found inside …` and then
reads the file to confirm the library really is MIT — "asset names are
not evidence". The staged archive carried only the dylib and headers, so
it would have passed its SHA-256 and then died at vendoring, which is the
worst possible place to discover it. `LICENSE` and `ThirdPartyNotices.txt`
are now copied, matching what upstream ships.
**`${{ env.ImageOS }}` evaluates to the empty string.** The `env`
expression context carries only what a workflow, job or step `env:` block
defined; `ImageOS`/`ImageVersion` are set by the runner into its own
environment, so the expression silently disappears and the cache key loses
that component.
The proof is this repository's own cache list. `build-whisper-stt.yml`
builds its key the same way, and the stored keys read:
whisper-stt-build-darwin-arm64---2ca5d2c7…
whisper-stt-build-linux-x64---2ca5d2c7…
Three hyphens where two values should be. That workflow's comment explains
at length that scoping the key to the image version "auto-busts it on
every toolchain roll" — and it never has, on any platform, since the day
it was written. Filed separately; this commit only fixes the copy of the
mistake it was about to add.
Here the values are read in a `run:` step, where they are ordinary shell
variables, and passed through `GITHUB_OUTPUT`.
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Both findings checked, both real, both fixed in 1. The archive had no
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…y claim
A SHA-256 in `fetch-onnxruntime.mjs` says "these are the bytes somebody
pinned". It cannot say where they came from. While the publisher was
Microsoft that gap did not matter much — the URL named them. Once the
publisher is this project, it is the question that matters.
`actions/attest-build-provenance` binds the archive's digest to the
commit, workflow and run that produced it, signed by GitHub, so anyone
can check it before adopting:
gh attestation verify onnxruntime-osx-arm64-<v>.tgz --repo getopenscreen/openscreen
This does not replace the digest pin — the pin is what the fetch script
enforces on every developer machine, the attestation is what a reviewer
checks once. They answer different questions and both are kept.
`id-token: write` and `attestations: write` are what the action needs to
mint and record the signature. Neither grants write access to the
repository, and `contents` stays `read`.
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Added in The reasoning, since it is the thing that closes the gap you asked about: a SHA-256 says "these are the bytes somebody pinned", it cannot say where they came from. While Microsoft was the publisher that hardly mattered, because the URL named them. Once we are the publisher, it becomes the question.
gh attestation verify onnxruntime-osx-arm64-<v>.tgz --repo getopenscreen/openscreenIt does not replace the digest pin — the pin is what
One thing this still does not give you, and it is worth stating plainly: the build is not byte-reproducible. Rebuilding the same tag will not produce the same archive — paths, timestamps and the image's compiler version all move. So a rebuild cannot be used as an integrity check; the model is "pin one artifact, verify its provenance once, never rebuild silently", which is the same shape as today with a different builder. |
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Pin the provenance action to a full commit SHA.
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Four fixes. Two are review findings; two are defects the workflow's own first run on a runner exposed, which is why this had not been merged. **Three builds ran concurrently on this PR, the oldest for nearly four hours.** Every push touching the trigger paths started another and none of the earlier ones stopped. `concurrency` with `cancel-in-progress`, the same shape five other workflows in this repo already use. **The build takes far longer on a runner than on the reference machine** — 10 min on an 8-core M1 at `--parallel 4`, still going after 227 min on `macos-latest`. Bare `--parallel` means "one job per core", and ONNX Runtime's translation units are memory-hungry, so on a runner with much less RAM per core that is a recipe for swapping. Now bounded to `nproc - 1`, with the core count and memory logged so the next person can see what they got, and `timeout-minutes: 150` so a pathological run fails where somebody notices instead of burning six hours quietly. **The summary claimed provenance was attested even when the attestation step had failed.** It runs under `if: always()`, so a failed attest still printed "Provenance is attested" and the adoption instructions. It now checks `steps.attest.outcome` and, on failure, says plainly not to adopt the archive — the digest says what the bytes are, nothing says where they came from. **Every action is pinned to a full commit SHA.** This workflow holds `id-token: write` and `attestations: write`, and `docs.yml` — the only other workflow in this repo with `id-token: write` — already pins all of its actions this way, with `# vX.Y.Z` comments. Matching it rather than inventing a third convention.
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Four fixes in What running it actually revealedThree builds ran concurrently on this PR — the oldest for nearly four hours. Every push touching the trigger paths started another and none of the earlier ones stopped. And the build is far slower on a runner than the PR claims. 10 min on an 8-core M1 at The PR description's "10 min" is therefore wrong as a CI figure and I will correct it once a bounded run finishes with a real number. It stands as the reference-machine measurement and nothing more. The two review findings, both validPin the provenance action to a SHA. Correct, and it matches this repo's own practice rather than being a general principle: The summary claimed provenance was attested even when the attest step failed. Correct and worse than cosmetic: the step runs under |
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- Line 65: Increase the workflow job’s timeout-minutes setting above the
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- Line 68: Update both actions/checkout steps in the macOS ONNX Runtime workflow
to set persist-credentials to false, ensuring the GitHub token is not retained
during third-party CMake configuration and builds.
- Line 95: Update the actions/checkout step in the ONNX Runtime build workflow
to pin the exact expected ONNX Runtime source commit rather than relying only on
the dynamically resolved version tag. Ensure the checked-out commit SHA is
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The workflow ran green end to end. Run 33871478656, 15/15 steps, 30 minutes.
The 227-minute run and this 26.5-minute one differ only in The guard did its job on the interesting axis: the runner is macOS 26, and the library still came out at This produces an adoptable artifact todayFor #591, the remaining steps are now concrete rather than hypothetical: gh run download 33871478656 --repo getopenscreen/openscreen -n onnxruntime-osx-arm64
gh attestation verify onnxruntime-osx-arm64-1.27.1.tgz --repo getopenscreen/openscreenthen attach it to a release and paste the |
Two review findings applied, one declined on the measurement. **Build the commit, not the tag.** `v1.27.1` upstream is a *lightweight* tag: it points straight at a commit and can be moved by anyone with push rights there. Building from it means attesting an artifact to "whatever that tag meant this morning" — which is exactly the property this workflow exists to provide, so the tag undercut its own point. `SOURCE_COMMIT` now sits beside `VERSION` in `fetch-onnxruntime.mjs`, so the single source of truth stays single, and a step fails the build if the tag no longer resolves to it. That catches both a repointed tag and a `VERSION` bump whose commit was forgotten. The source commit is printed in the job summary beside the digest, so whoever adopts the artifact can see what it was built from. **`persist-credentials: false` on both checkouts.** This job compiles third-party source in the same workspace, and leaving the token in `.git/config` puts it within reach of ONNX Runtime's own build scripts — in a workflow holding `attestations: write`. `build.yml`, `docs.yml` and `nix-build.yml` already set this; the omission was mine. **Raising `timeout-minutes` above 227 is declined.** That number is from the run with bare `--parallel`, which swapped instead of compiling. With the parallelism bounded the whole job takes **30 minutes**, verified end to end. 150 is already five times the observed duration, and a cap set above a known-pathological run cannot do the job a cap is for.
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Three findings. Two applied in Declined: raise
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Lint caught it and was right: `SOURCE_COMMIT` existed only to be read out
of this file by a `sed` in the workflow, which makes it dead as far as
this module is concerned and fragile as a design — nothing in the file
explains why it cannot be deleted.
It now prints when the fetched artifact is one we built (`spec.baseUrl`
set):
built here from microsoft/onnxruntime@df2ba1cf…
which is the line somebody wants when the binary no longer carries
Microsoft's name and they are trying to work out what it came from. The
upstream path is unchanged and prints nothing extra, because for an
upstream artifact the URL already says.
Exercised, not assumed: `node scripts/fetch-onnxruntime.mjs --force`
downloads, verifies and vendors as before, exit 0, and the new line stays
quiet because the upstream entry has no `baseUrl`.
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Closes the packaging blocker in #591 by building the one binary no published release can satisfy.
The problem, restated with the evidence
npm run build:maccannot package a macOS bundle today. Microsoft'sonnxruntime-osx-arm64-*.tgzis built for macOS 14,electron-builder.json5declaresminimumSystemVersion: "13.0", andbefore-pack.cjsrefuses the payload. The guard is right: the deployment target decides which symbols the linker resolves against the OS rather than emitting locally, which is exactly how #515 stranded macOS 12 users with a dyld failure they reported as a denied permission.There is no version that fits. Every macOS arm64 release checked, 1.20 → 1.29:
minosThe floor moved at 1.24 and never came back, and even the oldest is above 13.0. Lowering
ort'sapi-27feature does not rescue it either. Building is the only option that keeps both macOS 13 and webcam segmentation.Measured, on both machines
--parallel 4--parallel 2minos 13.0, arm64, 21.7 MBminos 13.0, verified by the workflow's own guardAn earlier run of this same workflow took 227 minutes and had not finished. The difference is
--parallel: bare, it means one job per core, and on a 7 GiB runner that is ~2.3 GiB per ONNX translation unit — under what they need, so the machine swapped instead of compiling. Bounded tonproc - 1it is 26.5 minutes. That figure only exists because this PR was left to run before being merged.The 15 MB difference is the CoreML execution provider, which this app does not use:
segmentation.rsbuilds its session with no explicit provider, andwebcam-segmentation.mdrecords the CPU EP as a measured decision — "Inference p50, CPU EP: 3.575 ms — the CPU is faster".It was exercised, not just inspected.
the_whole_loop_produces_a_mask_from_compose_frame_alone— capture → inference → mask → composite — went from skipped (ONNX Runtime absent) to1 passed; 0 failedwithORT_DYLIB_PATHpointed at the built library. The skip counter going 1 → 0 is what proves inference actually ran rather than being bypassed.What the workflow guards
scripts/fetch-onnxruntime.mjsandelectron-builder.json5. Neither can drift out of step with what consumes them.minosis not the floor. A library that came out at 14.0 anyway is worse than none: it would sail through packaging and fail at dyld time on precisely the machines it was built to support.OrtGetApiBaseor the CPU provider is missing.ortis wiredload-dynamic, so those are the two symbols that matter. CoreML is deliberately absent and deliberately unchecked.It drives CMake directly rather than upstream's
build.sh, whosebuild_args.pyusesmatchand so needs Python 3.10+. Thefind_package(Python 3.10)in their CMake is only real for the Python bindings; the one thing Python is genuinely needed for is generating the symbol export list, andgen_def.pyparses fine on 3.9.It deliberately does not publish
The workflow builds, verifies, and prints the exact
PINNEDentry in the job summary. Attaching the archive to a release and pasting that entry stays a human step. That keeps the posturefetch-onnxruntime.mjsdocuments at length — immutable URL, SHA-256 verified before the archive is opened — rather than replacing it with "whatever CI last uploaded". What changes is who built the bytes, not how much they are trusted.fetch-onnxruntime.mjsgains an optional per-targetbaseUrl. Nothing points at it yet, so this PR changes no behaviour:npm run fetch:onnxruntimestill pulls the same upstream artifact and verifies the same digest.What a reviewer should push back on
the_whole_loop_produces_a_mask_from_compose_frame_alone) and could be wired here, but it needs a GPU-capable runner and the compositor built — that is a bigger job than this PR.Summary by CodeRabbit