Create test-cpp-linter-action.yml

.github/workflows/test-cpp-linter-action.yml

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+name: Test cpp-linter-action
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  workflow_call:
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest ]
+        clang-version: ['9','10', '11', '12', '13', '14', '15', '16', '17', '18']
+      fail-fast: false
+
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+          repository: cpp-linter/test-cpp-linter-action
+
+      - name: Cache the build artifacts
+        id: cache-build
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: build
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('src/CMakeLists.txt', 'src/demo.cpp', 'src/demo.hpp') }}
+
+      - name: Generate compilation database
+        if: steps.cache-build.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: mkdir build && cmake -Bbuild src
+
+      - name: Run linter as action
+        uses: cpp-linter/cpp-linter-action@latest
+        id: linter
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          style: file
+          files-changed-only: false
+          # to ignore all build folder contents
+          ignore: build
+          database: build
+          verbosity: 9
+          version: ${{ matrix.clang-version }}
+          thread-comments: ${{ matrix.clang-version == '12' }}
+          file-annotations: ${{ matrix.clang-version == '12' }}
+          extra-args: -std=c++14 -Wall
+
+      - name: Fail fast?!
+        # if: steps.linter.outputs.checks-failed > 0
+        run: |
+          echo "some linter checks failed"
+          echo "${{ steps.linter.outputs.checks-failed }}"
+          echo "${{ env.checks-failed }}"
+        # for actual deployment
+        # run: exit 1