diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..18736ba3305fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+name: 'build'
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    env:
+      MSYSTEM: MINGW64
+      CHERE_INVOKING: 'yes'
+      MSYS: 'winsymlinks:native'
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - platform: macos-x86_64
+            runs_on: macos-12
+            extra_configure_args: "--disable-cocoa --disable-coreaudio"
+            shell: bash -e {0}
+          # - platform: macos-arm64
+          #   runs_on: macos-latest-xlarge
+          #   extra_configure_args: "--disable-cocoa --disable-coreaudio"
+          #   shell: bash -e {0}
+          - platform: linux-amd64
+            runs_on: ubuntu-20.04
+            # Building with -Werror only on Linux as that breaks some features detection
+            # in meson on macOS.
+            extra_configure_args: "--extra-cflags=-Werror --disable-gtk"
+            shell: bash -e {0}
+          - platform: linux-arm64
+            runs_on: ubuntu-22.04
+            extra_configure_args: "--disable-gtk --cross-prefix=aarch64-linux-gnu-"
+            shell: bash -e {0}
+          - platform: win-x86_64
+            runs_on: windows-2022
+            extra_configure_args: ""
+            shell: msys2 {0}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs_on }}
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: ${{ matrix.shell }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Install prerequisites (Linux arm64)
+        if: ${{ matrix.platform == 'linux-arm64' }}
+        env:
+          DEBIAN_FRONTEND: "noninteractive"
+        run: |
+          sudo cat /etc/apt/apt-mirrors.txt
+          sudo sed -i '/azure\.archive\.ubuntu\.com/d' /etc/apt/apt-mirrors.txt
+          sudo cat /etc/apt/apt-mirrors.txt
+          sudo dpkg --add-architecture arm64
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -q --no-install-recommends \
+              ninja-build \
+              crossbuild-essential-arm64 \
+              binutils-dev:arm64 \
+              libgcrypt-dev:arm64 \
+              libglib2.0-dev:arm64 \
+              libpixman-1-dev:arm64 \
+              libslirp-dev:arm64
+      - name: Install prerequisites (Linux x86_64)
+        if: ${{ matrix.platform == 'linux-amd64' }}
+        env:
+          DEBIAN_FRONTEND: "noninteractive"
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get install -y -q --no-install-recommends \
+              binutils-dev \
+              ninja-build \
+              libgcrypt-dev \
+              libglib2.0-dev \
+              libpixman-1-dev \
+              libslirp-dev
+      - name: Install prerequisites (macOS)
+        if: ${{ matrix.platform == 'macos-x86_64' || matrix.platform == 'macos-arm64' }}
+        run: |
+          brew install \
+              ninja \
+              libgcrypt \
+              glib \
+              pixman \
+              pkg-config
+      - name: Install prerequisites (Windows)
+        if : ${{ matrix.platform == 'win-x86_64' }}
+        uses: msys2/setup-msys2@v2
+        with:
+          cache: true
+          msystem: mingw64
+          install: >-
+            mingw-w64-x86_64-python
+            mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja
+            mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
+            mingw-w64-x86_64-glib2
+            mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config
+            mingw-w64-x86_64-pixman
+            mingw-w64-x86_64-libgcrypt
+            mingw-w64-x86_64-libslirp
+            diffutils git
+      - name: Sanity check (macOS)
+        if: ${{ matrix.platform == 'macos-x86_64' || matrix.platform == 'macos-arm64' }}
+        run: |
+          which cc || true
+          which gcc || true
+          which clang || true
+          cc --version || true
+          gcc --version || true
+          clang --version || true
+
+          clang 1.m -o 1
+
+      - name: Configure
+        run: |
+          ./configure \
+            --prefix=$PWD/install/qemu \
+            --target-list=xtensa-softmmu \
+            --with-pkgversion="${{ github.ref_name }}" \
+            --enable-gcrypt \
+            --enable-slirp \
+            --disable-user \
+            --disable-capstone \
+            --disable-vnc \
+            --disable-sdl \
+            --disable-docs \
+            ${{ matrix.extra_configure_args }} || (cat meson-logs/meson-log.txt && false)
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          ninja -C build
+      - name: Package distribution archive
+        run: |
+          ninja -C build install
+          find install/qemu/share/qemu -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name 'esp*.bin' -exec rm -rf {} \;
+          mkdir -p dist
+          export DIST_DIR=${PWD}/dist
+          export ARCHIVE_NAME=qemu-${{ github.ref_name }}-${{ matrix.platform }}.tar.bz2
+          cd install
+          tar cjvf ${DIST_DIR}/${ARCHIVE_NAME} qemu
+          cd ${DIST_DIR}
+          shasum -a 256 *.tar.bz2 > ${ARCHIVE_NAME}.sha256
diff --git a/1.m b/1.m
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9ee5c2b1eeec6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/1.m
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#import<stddef.h>
+int main(void) { return 0; }
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index a9c4f28247609..95d40c431960b 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-project('qemu', ['c'], meson_version: '>=0.63.0',
+project('qemu', ['c', 'objc'], meson_version: '>=0.63.0',
         default_options: ['warning_level=1', 'c_std=gnu11', 'cpp_std=gnu++11', 'b_colorout=auto',
                           'b_staticpic=false', 'stdsplit=false', 'optimization=2', 'b_pie=true'],
         version: files('VERSION'))