When working with storage (especially GInputStream or GOutputStream) it
is preferred to use page-aligned buffers so that the operating system
can do page-mapping tricks as the operation passes through the kernel.
Another use case is allocating memory used for vectorised operations,
which must be aligned to specific boundaries.
POSIX and Windows, as well as the C11 specification, provide this kind
of allocator functions, and GLib already makes use of it inside GSlice.
It would be convenient to have a public, portable wrapper that other
projects can use.
Fixes: #2574
Glib cannot be built statically on Windows because glib, gobject and gio
modules need to perform specific initialization when DLL are loaded and
cleanup when unloaded. Those initializations and cleanups are performed
using the DllMain function which is not called with static builds.
Issue is known for a while and solutions were already proposed but never
merged (see: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/692). Last
patch is from version 2.36.x and since then the
"constructor/destructor" mechanism has been implemented and used in
other part of the system.
This patch takes back the old idea and updates it to the last version of
glib to allow static compilation on Windows.
WARNING: because DllMain doesn't exist anymore in static compilation
mode, there is no easy way of knowing when a Windows thread finishes.
This patch implements a workaround for glib threads created by calling
g_thread_new(), so all glib threads created through glib API will behave
exactly the same way in static and dynamic compilation modes.
Unfortunately, Windows threads created by using CreateThread() or
_beginthread/ex() will not work with glib TLS functions. If users need
absolutely to use a thread NOT created with glib API under Windows and
in static compilation mode, they should not use glib functions within
their thread or they may encounter memory leaks when the thread finishes.
This should not be an issue as users should use exclusively the glib API
to manipulate threads in order to be cross-platform compatible and this
would be very unlikely and cumbersome that they may mix up Windows native
threads API with glib one.
Closes#692
This code was skipping fsync on BTRFS because of an old guarantee about
the overwrite-by-rename behavior that no longer holds true. This has
been confirmed by the BTRFS developers to no longer be guaranteed since
Kernel 3.17 (August 2014), but it was guaranteed when this optimization
was first introduced in 2010.
This could result in empty files after crashes in applications using
g_file_set_contents(). Most prominently this might have been the cause
of dconf settings getting lost on BTRFS after crashes due to the
frequency with which such writes can happen in dconf.
See: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dconf/-/issues/73
Using ld_flags would work, but that does not propagate ldflags to users
of glib. Meson's dependency() call will propagate apple framework
dependencies to downstream users.
Previously they were only passed to the C compiler, which meant disabled
warnings were still emitted when (for example) including C headers from
C++ and ObjC files.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
It is exactly the same wrap as the one in WrapDB but with a different
name. That fix error when multiple projects uses pcre and they don't
have the same wrap name:
meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Multiple wrap files provide 'libpcre' dependency: pcre.wrap and libpcre.wrap
This is what’s available in the new Debian Stable, so we can expect it
to be available pretty much everywhere.
Subsequent commits will clean up old workarounds.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Include the correct system headers for each test that meson performs.
This allows system capabilities to be detected correctly even if
implicit declaration of functions is considered an error.
This should maintain equivalent functionality, apart from that now you
have to pass `--force-fallback-for libpcre` to `meson configure` in
order to use the subproject; rather than specifying
`-Dinternal_pcre=true` to use the internal copy.
This also fixes#642, as the wrapdb copy of libpcre is version 8.37.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #962Fixes: #642
If libintl is built statically on macOS, linking it requires passing
"-framework CoreFoundation" to satisfy symbol dependencies. Use the
available osx_ldflags already detected earlier in the process.
Resolve "g_date_time_format() does not return UTF-8 if LC_TIME is not UTF8 but other locale settings are UTF-8"
Closes#2055
See merge request GNOME/glib!1777
Make msvc_recommended_pragmas.h work better with clang-cl so that we can
use that to eliminate some warnings that are emitted as it also consumes
Microsoft compiler and SDK headers.
Also, for GLib builds, force-include msvc_recommended_pragmas.h for
clang-cl builds as well, as it becomes usable and useful there.
Fixes issue #2357.
Functions (_g_get_time_charset and _g_get_ctype_charset) to get LC_TIME and LC_CTYPE charset
by using nl_langinfo with _NL_TIME_CODESET and CODESET).
Another functions (_g_locale_time_to_utf8 and _g_locale_ctype_to_utf8) which uses thel and format
the input string accordingly.
Add new test cases with mixing UTF8 and non UTF8 LC_TIME along with UTF8
and non UTF8 LC_MESSAGES.
Closed#2055
Signed-off-by: Frederic Martinsons <frederic.martinsons@sigfox.com>
This will require distributions to ensure they pass
`--localstatedir=/var` correctly to Meson, but they should be doing that
already.
See https://mesonbuild.com/Builtin-options.html#directories for details
about how Meson treats `localstatedir` differently from most other `dir`
variables.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Meson incorrectly detects strcasecmp, strncasecmp on clang-cl if 'prefix:'
is not specified for cc.has_function().
See https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/5628
Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2337
Before this change:
msvc was using _stricmp()
gcc on mingw was using strcasecmp()
gcc on linux was using strcasecmp()
clang-cl was trying to use strcasecmp()
After this change:
msvc is using _stricmp()
gcc on mingw is using strcasecmp()
gcc on linux is using strcasecmp()
clang-cl is using _stricmp()
Tests are still failing to build with clang-cl, but that's a separate issue.
With bash completion version lesser than 2.10, only prefix is defined
while for greater version it is datadir.
Closes#1054
Signed-off-by: Frederic Martinsons <frederic.martinsons@sigfox.com>
The function declaration we use changed a bit since then.
In particular, some arguments became const. See following commit.
libselinux-2.2 was released on 20131030, and is widely available in
all major stable distributions.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
It’s landed in kernel 5.9: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2008.0/02649.html
Note, this is untested because I currently don’t have kernel 5.9. We can
fix anything up if it breaks once the new syscall is wrapped in glibc.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
This currently just implements the same functionality as the existing
`stat()`/`fstat()`/`fstatat()`/`lstat()` calls, although where a reduced
field set is requested it may return faster.
Helps: #1970
cc.has_function() provide false positive for Android-20 and earlier; the fix is in Meson 0.54.2. People attempting to cross-compile previously wouldn’t have been able to get it to work without manual intervention, so the dependency bump for this platform is not an additional obstacle for them.
In cases where performance are critical it can be useful to disable
checks and asserts. GStreamer has those options too, using the same name
and setting them yielding means we can set those options on the main
project (e.g. gst-build) and glib will inherit the same value when built
as subproject.
`get_option('buildtype')` will return `'custom'` for most combinations
of `-Doptimization` and `-Ddebug`, but those two will always be set
correctly if only `-Dbuildtype` is set. So we should look at those
options directly.
For the two-way mapping between `buildtype` and `optimization`
+ `debug`, see this table:
https://mesonbuild.com/Builtin-options.html#build-type-options
The test code can be built on Windows using Cygwin or MSYS2.
Even though it's test code, it might bring assertion dialog box
for native Windows while meson configure.
There were a couple of custom paths which could end up being relative,
rather than absolute, due to not properly prefixing them with
`get_option('prefix')`.
The use of `join_paths()` here correctly drops all path components
before the final absolute path in the list of arguments. So if someone
configures GLib with an absolute path for `gio_module_dir`, that will be
used unprefixed; but if someone configures with a relative path, it will
be prefixed by `get_option('prefix)`.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Fixes: #1919
This is required to be able to build the doc. The debian docker is still
pinned to 0.49.2 which ensure we can build with both versions of meson.
Meson 0.52.0 warns about adding -Wall flag manually, we can remove that
because warning_level=1 (the default) option already implies it.
By default (on POSIX) we would be inheriting thread priorities from the
thread that pushed a new task on non-exclusive thread pools and causes a
new thread to be created. This can cause any non-exclusive thread pool
to accidentally contain threads of different priorities, or e.g. threads
with real-time priority.
To prevent this, custom handling for setting the scheduler settings for
Linux and Windows is added and as a fallback for other platforms a new
thread is added that is responsible for spawning threads for
non-exclusive thread pools.
Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1834
It's not supported on macOS' clang compiler and will fail the visibility
check and thus make the G_GNUC_INTERNAL attribute do nothing.
Compiler stderr:
/var/folders/nt/j2v2x4wd5cl33fq27mm31mwc0000gn/T/tmpxxf2zzi_/testfile.c:13:19: error: target does not support 'protected' visibility; using 'default' [-Werror,-Wunsupported-visibility]
__attribute__ ((visibility ("protected")))
^
1 error generated.
Checking if "GNU C visibility attributes test" compiles: NO
When choosing the type to base `size_t` on, check the compatibility of
passing pointers, as well as the width of the type, to avoid compiler
warnings in future.
For now, the code to do the checks is fairly ugly due to limitations in
Meson. In particular, the new checks are limited to gcc and clang (other
compilers will behave as before), and they are all duplicated. See the
comments in the code for links to Meson improvement requests.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Fixes: #1777
