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+name: ci
+
+on:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - 'src/**'
+      - 'test/**'
+      - 'conda/**'
+      - 'cmake/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/ci.yml'
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  activate:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: |
+      github.repository == 'IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell' &&
+      !contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'skip ci')
+    steps:
+      - run: echo ok go
+
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    needs: activate
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+            submodules: recursive
+      - name: Install C++ dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt update
+          sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends \
+          git cmake gcc g++ \
+          libboost-date-time-dev \
+          libboost-filesystem-dev \
+          libboost-iostreams-dev \
+          libboost-program-options-dev \
+          libboost-regex-dev \
+          libboost-system-dev \
+          libboost-thread-dev \
+          python3-all-dev python3-pip \
+          swig libpcre3-dev libxml2-dev \
+          libtbb-dev nlohmann-json3-dev \
+          libocct-foundation-dev libocct-modeling-algorithms-dev libocct-modeling-data-dev libocct-ocaf-dev libocct-visualization-dev libocct-data-exchange-dev \
+          libhdf5-dev libcgal-dev
+          
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action@v1
+
+      - name: Build ifcopenshell
+        run: |
+          mkdir build && cd build
+          cmake \
+               -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
+               -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
+               -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+               -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr \
+               -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH=/usr \
+               -DOCC_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/opencascade \
+               -DOCC_LIBRARY_DIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
+               -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=/usr/bin/python3 \
+               -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=/usr/include/python3.8 \
+               -DPYTHON_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.8.so \
+               -DCOLLADA_SUPPORT=Off \
+               "-DSCHEMA_VERSIONS=2x3;4" \
+               -DBUILD_CONVERT=Off \
+               -DGLTF_SUPPORT=On \
+               -DJSON_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include \
+               -DCGAL_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include \
+               -DGMP_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include \
+               -DMPFR_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include \
+               -DGMP_LIBRARY_DIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
+               -DMPFR_LIBRARY_DIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
+               -DHDF5_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/hdf5/serial \
+             ../cmake
+          sudo make -j $(nproc)
+          sudo make install
+
+      - name: Install Python dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install -U pip
+          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install xmlschema numpy lxml
+          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install src/bcf
+          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install pytest
+          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install isodate
+          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install lark
+          sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install networkx
+
+      - name: Test
+        run: |
+          cd test
+          sudo /usr/bin/python tests.py
+          cd ../src/ifcopenshell-python
+          mv ifcopenshell ifcopenshell-local # Force testing on installed module
+          make test