tools: add an option to generate lighter archives

Author: aduh95

.github/workflows/test-shared.yml

@@ -59,7 +59,36 @@ permissions:
   contents: read
 
 jobs:
+  build-tarball:
+    if: github.event.pull_request.draft == false
+    name: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && 'Skipped job' || 'Build slim tarball' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-arm
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8  # v5.0.0
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Make tarball
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
+        run: |
+          export DATESTRING=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d")
+          export COMMIT=$(git rev-parse --short=10 "$GITHUB_SHA")
+          ./configure && make tar -j4 SKIP_XZ=1 SKIP_SHARED_DEPS=1
+        env:
+          DISTTYPE: nightly
+
+
+      - name: Upload tarball artifact
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02  # v4.6.2
+        with:
+          name: tarballs
+          path: '*.tar.gz'
+          compression-level: 0
+
   build:
+    needs: build-tarball
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -75,10 +104,17 @@ jobs:
     name: '${{ matrix.system }}: with shared libraries'
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683  # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@634f93cb2916e3fdff6788551b99b062d0335ce0  # v5.0.0
         if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
         with:
-          persist-credentials: false
+          name: tarballs
+          path: tarballs
+
+      - name: Extract tarball
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
+        run: |
+          tar xzf tarballs/*.tar.gz -C "$RUNNER_TEMP"
+          echo "TAR_DIR=$RUNNER_TEMP/$(basename tarballs/*.tar.gz .tar.gz)" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
       - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683  # v4.2.2
         if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' }}
@@ -109,6 +145,10 @@ jobs:
             core.exportVariable('ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL', process.env.ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL || '');
             core.exportVariable('ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN', process.env.ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN || '');
 
+      - name: Load shell.nix
+        if: github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch'
+        run: mv "$TAR_DIR"/*.nix .
+
       - name: Load shell.nix
         if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
         run: |
@@ -119,14 +159,14 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           nix-shell \
             -I nixpkgs=./nixpkgs.nix \
-            --pure --keep FLAKY_TESTS \
+            --pure --keep TAR_DIR --keep FLAKY_TESTS \
             --keep SCCACHE_GHA_VERSION --keep ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2 --keep ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL --keep ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN \
             --arg loadJSBuiltinsDynamically false \
             --arg ccache '(import <nixpkgs> {}).sccache' \
             --arg devTools '[]' \
             --arg benchmarkTools '[]' \
             --run '
-                make ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && 'build' || 'run' }}-ci -j4 V=1 TEST_CI_ARGS="-p actions --measure-flakiness 9 --skip-tests=$CI_SKIP_TESTS"
+                make ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && 'build' || '-C "$TAR_DIR" run' }}-ci -j4 V=1 TEST_CI_ARGS="-p actions --measure-flakiness 9 --skip-tests=$CI_SKIP_TESTS"
             '
 
       - name: Re-build Node.js on the merge commit

Makefile

@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ ADDONS_HEADERS_PREREQS := tools/install.py \
 	$(wildcard deps/uv/include/*/*.h) \
 	$(wildcard deps/v8/include/*.h) \
 	$(wildcard deps/v8/include/*/*.h) \
-	deps/zlib/zconf.h deps/zlib/zlib.h \
+	$(wildcard deps/zlib/z*.h) \
 	src/node.h src/node_api.h src/js_native_api.h src/js_native_api_types.h \
 	src/node_api_types.h src/node_buffer.h src/node_object_wrap.h \
 	src/node_version.h
@@ -1032,6 +1032,11 @@ override DESTCPU=x86
 endif
 
 TARNAME=node-$(FULLVERSION)
+# Supply SKIP_SHARED_DEPS=1 to explicitly skip all dependencies that can be included as shared deps
+SKIP_SHARED_DEPS ?= 0
+ifeq ($(SKIP_SHARED_DEPS), 1)
+TARNAME:=$(TARNAME)-slim
+endif
 TARBALL=$(TARNAME).tar
 # Custom user-specified variation, use it directly
 ifdef VARIATION
@@ -1215,12 +1220,31 @@ $(TARBALL): release-only doc-only
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/.mailmap
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/corepack
 	$(RM) $(TARNAME)/test/parallel/test-corepack-version.js
+ifeq ($(SKIP_SHARED_DEPS), 1)
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/ada
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/brotli
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/cares
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/icu-small
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/icu-tmp
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/llhttp
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/nghttp2
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/ngtcp2
+	find $(TARNAME)/deps/openssl -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name 'nodejs-openssl.cnf' -exec $(RM) {} +
+	find $(TARNAME)/deps/openssl -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec $(RM) -r {} +
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/simdjson
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/sqlite
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/uv
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/uvwasi
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/zlib
+	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/zstd
+else
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/openssl/openssl/demos
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/openssl/openssl/doc
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/openssl/openssl/test
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/uv/docs
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/uv/samples
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/uv/test
+endif
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/v8/samples
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/v8/tools/profviz
 	$(RM) -r $(TARNAME)/deps/v8/tools/run-tests.py