The goal of this commit is to reduce differences between the autotools and meson build.
With autotools AC_FUNC_ALLOCA was used which defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H, HAVE_ALLOCA,
C_ALLOCA. meson tried to replicate that with has_function() but alloca can be a macro
and and is named _alloca under Windows. Since we require a working alloca anyway
and only need to know if the header exists replace AC_FUNC_ALLOCA with a simple
AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
There is still one user of HAVE_ALLOCA in the embedded gnulib, but since alloca is
always provided through galloca.h just force define HAVE_ALLOCA there and add a comment.
The docs were mentioning alloca as an example for cross compiling. Since that variable no
longer exists now replace it with another one.
Check for compile warnings when assigning an int64_t* to a long*,
make gint64 a long long if they occur and assigning an int64_t* to
a long long* doesn't.
Modified by Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com> to support Meson as
well as autotools.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/972
The autotools build set it by default and we use off_t in various places,
even on Windows. Also set it with the meson build to avoid any regressions.
Ideally we shouldn't use off_t and use 64bit capable API on Windows instead, so
we get large file support with MSVC as well.
See https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2018-July/msg00004.html
for a discussion on if/when we can start relying on Python 3 only.
Use Python 3.4 as a new requirement because that's the version used in
SLES 12 and Debian 8 and there is no good reason to require something newer
right now.
The new python module, added with 0.46, works with Python 2 and 3 and
allows to pass a path for the interpreter to use, if the need arises.
Previously the meson build set PYTHON, used in the shebang line of
the scripts installed by glib, to the full path of the interpreter.
The new meson module doesn't expose that atm, but we should set it to
a executable name anyway, and not a full path.
When compiling third-party projects with -Wbad-function-cast, the inline
g_atomic_pointer_get() implementation which uses C11 __atomic_load*()
calls on GCC was causing compilation errors like:
error: cast from function call of type ‘long unsigned int’ to non-matching type ‘void *’
While we don’t want to compile all of GLib with -Wbad-function-cast, we
should support its headers being included in projects which do enable
that warning.
It doesn’t seem to be possible to cast away the warning (e.g. by casting
the function’s result through (void)), so we have to assign to an
intermediate integer of the right size first.
The same has to be done for the bool return value from
__sync_bool_compare_and_swap(). In that case, casting from bool to
gboolean raises a -Wbad-function-cast warning, since gboolean is
secretly int.
The atomic tests have been modified to enable -Wbad-function-cast to
catch regressions of this in future. The GLib build has conversely been
modified to set -Wno-bad-function-cast, just in case people have it set
in their environment CFLAGS.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1041
This requires meson >= 0.47.0 otherwise building the doc fails:
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/3379
While at it, no need to to pass --prefix --libdir to meson, other CIs
don't have them.
When the amount of free memory on the system is somewhat low, gnome-shell
will sometimes fail to launch apps, reporting the error:
fork(): Cannot allocate memory
fork() is failing here because while cloning the process virtual address
space, Linux worries that the thread being forked may end up COWing the
entire address space of the parent process (gnome-shell, which is
memory-hungry), and there is not enough free memory to permit that to
happen.
In this case we are simply calling fork() in order to quickly call exec(),
which will throw away the entirity of the duplicated VM, so we should
look for ways to avoid the overcommit check.
The well known solution to this is to use clone(CLONE_VM) or vfork(), which
completely avoids creating a new memory address space for the child.
However, that comes with a bunch of caveats and complications:
https://gist.github.com/nicowilliams/a8a07b0fc75df05f684c23c18d7db234https://ewontfix.com/7/
In 2016, glibc's posix_spawn() was rewritten to use this approach
while also resolving the concerns.
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=9ff72da471a509a8c19791efe469f47fa6977410
I experimented with a similar approach in glib, but it was not practical
because glibc has several items of important internal knowledge (such as
knowing which signals should be given special treatment because they are
NPTL implementation details) that are not cleanly exposed elsewhere.
Instead, this patch adapts the gspawn code to use posix_spawn() where
possible, which will reap the benefits of that implementation.
The posix_spawn API is more limited than the gspawn API though,
partly due to natural limitations of using CLONE_VM, so the posix_spawn
path is added as a separate codepath which is only executed when the
conditions are right. Callers such as gnome-shell will have to be modified
to meet these conditions, such as not having a child_setup function.
In addition to allowing for the gnome-shell "Cannot allocate memory"
failure to be avoided, this should result in a general speedup in this
area, because fork()'s behaviour of cloning the entire VM space
has a cost which is now avoided. posix_spawn() has also recently
been optimized on OpenSolaris as the most performant way to spawn
a child process.
We don’t strictly require this, but given that our CI runs it, we
essentially never test with 0.46.0, so it might as well be broken.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
We have not updated nor used this script for a long time, and nowadays
Meson makes it much easier to build on Windows for either Visual Studio
or MinGW, even straight from a GIT checkout, so it's about time that we
drop the glib-zip script from the source tree.
Autoconf macro AC_HEADER_MAJOR doesn't define a macro in config.h when
major is defined in sys/types.h. This was not a problem because major
is assumed to be always available. However, commit aefffa3fbc
changes this assumption in order to fix build on systems without major,
which causes code using major to be disabled on systems putting major
in sys/types.h.
This commit defines a new macro MAJOR_IN_TYPES for both autotools and
meson builds to make major useful on these systems again.
cc.has_header checks whether a header exists without knowing whether it
can be used. This is a problem on FreeBSD because its malloc.h is a
header with an '#error' line which always throw compilation error. To
avoid false positive in the check result, we use cc.compiles to do a
full compilation test instead of cc.has_header which only does check
with preprocessor.
We have no way to test Solaris builds atm, and it is not even clear how
to detect Solaris systems with meson. It will probably need to be
revisited when we get a proper CI in place.
See commit 4c2928a544 for why checking AT_SECURE is preferable compared
to UID checks as currently done in the fallback case.
getauxval() was added with glibc 2.16
While glibc <2.19 didn't provide a way to differentiate a 0 return value from an error,
passing AT_SECURE should always succeed according to
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-07/msg00407.html
I've added an errno check anyway, to be on the safe side.
Try and ensure that people don’t push code with misleading indentation
in future. This should give fairly few false positives.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
gcc defaults to utf-8 for both (see -fexec-charset and -finput-charset in the
gcc man page) so we should use it with msvc as well.
msvc by default uses the locale encoding unless there is a BOM, see
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt708821.aspx
Our minimum requirement is already greater than that, so we don't need
to add checks there. We can always add -Wl,-framework,CoreFoundation
flag.
Fixes#1380.
- Compiler checks were failing because it were using C compiler to build
objc code.
- xdgmime is needed on osx too.
- -DGIO_COMPILATION must be passed to objc compiler too.
- gapplication doesn't build on osx, it is excluded in autotools too.
We have to be careful when we use add_project_link_arguments(): All
targets are built using link arguments for the C language, except for
libgio on osx which use the objc language, because it contains some ".m"
source files. See https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/3585.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796214
Some compilers, particularly Android on armv5 and old versions of Clang
provide atomic ops, but don't define __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_4
so we need to define it ourselves.
This matches what configure does, with the exception that now it's only
done for Android since clang defines __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_4
now.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796325
The latest patches have fixed the atomic check, which
uses __sync_bool_compare_and_swap , and thus fails on
MSVC.
As a result, in gatomic.c, we ended up trying to include
pthread.h, which failed.
This mimics the old behaviour a bit more closely, where
G_ATOMIC_LOCK_FREE was always defined in the win32
glibconfig.h
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796220
The 'no-builtin' checks were just plain wrong. For accurate detection of
functions, use has_function with a header in the prefix. This fixes
posix_memalign detection on Android and on MinGW32, MSYS-MinGW-w64, and
old versions of MSYS2-MinGW-w64.
Using the header in the `prefix:` is generally a good idea because of
how macOS does targetting of specific macOS releases at compile time.
This also allows cross-files to override the result by setting
`has_function_stpcpy = false`, etc in [extra properties]
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795876
The comment stated that the test isn't good enough, but it correctly
detects a C99 printf when I build with -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=1
and an incompatible printf without it.
Using mingw-w64 from current MSYS2.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795569
This could have caused spurious test failures when running with -Werror,
due to the missing return statement in int main().
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Reviewed-by: nobody
Commit 3e96523e6b did not entirely fix the test, as the compiled test
code did not have a main() function, so failed to link with:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/7/../../../../lib64/crt1.o: In function `_start':
(.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
This caused an invalid mixtures of builtin and non-builtin atomics/locks
to be used, which caused deadlocks in a number of tests.
Fix the atomic ops test in meson.build, and the unit tests all start
working again.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796164
This allows building with posix threads on Windows. It is generally
better to use win32 threads implementation on Windows, but this option
can be used in case it causes issues, or for performance comparison for
example.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784995
win32_cflags gets used globally as cflags and exposed in the .pc file.
win32_ldflags gets passed to glib-2.0 and exposed in the .pc file.
This should match what the autotools build is currently doing with
GLIB_EXTRA_CFLAGS and G_LIBS_EXTRA.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784995
-z nodelete breaks the libresourceplugin module usage in the resources.c
test, which expects to be able to unload it.
Make the Meson build match what the autotools build does: only pass
glib_link_flags to the headline libraries (glib-2.0, gio-2.0,
gobject-2.0, gthread-2.0, gmodule-2.0) and omit it from all other build
targets.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788771
On Windows we use gnulib and elsewhere we use glibc or similar.
Also change G_GNUC_PRINTF to use gnu_printf instead of __format__ if
possible because __format__ evaluates to ms_printf under MinGW,
but we use gnulib there and not the system printf.
gnu_printf is only available with GCC>=4.4 and not with clang.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795569
In https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794555 the tests for
posix_memalign and stpcpy were extended to catch the case where
the compiler provides an incomplete builtin.
Under MSYS2 the example code still compiles and links while the real usage
of stpcpy fails to build. To prevent the MSYS2 gcc from using the builtin
versions pass -fno-builtin.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793729
The winsock2-using test does work perfectly, however this is a new
thing that didn't exist in autotools-based builds of glib in the past.
Autotools builds used the generic case where values were just defined
to some agreed-upon numbers, and this is what all autotools-glib
binaries and binaries built against autotools-glib (since these
values go into public glibconfig.h header) use. At least one value,
G_POLLIN, is different, thus breaking ABI if some binaries are
built with autotools and the others are built with meson.
Force meson buildscript to use the same G_POLL* constant values
for Windows builds that autotools builds use.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794687
When cross compiling and not exe wrapper has been defined cc.run() raise
an exception. Avoid this by taking the value from [properties] in the
cross file and provide sensible default if the variable is not defined.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794898
Add a test for monitoring an existing local file, with the
WATCH_HARD_LINKS flag specified. This would previously cause a crash;
now it doesn’t.
This test contains a FIXME where I suspect we should be getting some
additional file change notifications from changes made through the hard
link; this requires further follow up and probably further fixes to our
inotify backend.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755721
Accurate G_HAVE_GNUC_VISIBILITY is needed to correctly
define G_GNUC_INTERNAL later on. Autotools did that,
meson currently doesn't and opts to just set
G_HAVE_GNUC_VISIBILITY to 1 for all compilers except MSVC.
This leads to MinGW GCC having G_HAVE_GNUC_VISIBILITY=1,
which results in G_GNUC_INTERNAL being defined to
__attribute__((visibility("hidden"))), which is not supported.
Because cc.compiles() does not support override_options or
anything like that, we just feed it '-Werror' as-is, since
MSVC is known as not supporting visibility attributes anyway.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794636
GCC has built-ins for these functions, which might give a compile-only
test an impression that the functions are actually present in the C runtime.
Use a linked test to be sure.
Specifically, both functions are missing on Windows.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794555
Supports %OB (alternative, standalone, nominative) month name along
with the old %B (primary, in a complete date format context, genitive)
month name. Similarly %Ob and %Oh for abbreviated month names.
Depending on the underlying operating system uses nl_langinfo()
or provides our custom implementation.
(Tweaked by Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com> to add test case
comment and bug reference.)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749206
Since commit 96ebcee8c4, we don’t actually need libmount 2.28. Lower our
dependency to 2.23 so that we can continue to build against CentOS 7.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@gnome.org>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793288
Building against libmount installed into a non-default prefix wasn’t
working, as we were using #include <libmount/libmount.h> rather than
the correct #include <libmount.h> — all the mount.pc pkg-config files
set `Cflags: -I${includedir}/libmount`.
Fixing this while retaining the fallback support for versions of
libmount without a pkg-config file would have been tricky (we would need
to work out a suitable -I flag to set in LIBMOUNT_CFLAGS) to still be
able to use the correct #include path). Thankfully, libmount gained
pkg-config support a long time ago, so I think we can safely drop the
fallback code. In particular, Debian Jessie, Ubuntu Trusty, and CentOS 5
all ship a mount.pc file.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793288
GLib makes various assumptions about aliasing throughout its codebase,
and compiling with -fstrict-aliasing has been demonstrated to cause
problems (for example, bug #791622). Explicitly disable strict aliasing
as a result.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
As 'auto' dependency checking has been declared undesirable,
skip checking of optional dependencies where the option
defaults to true, but where the option doesn't make sense for
the operating system we're building for. Example: selinux only
makes sense on Linux, people compiling on Windows or macOS
shouldn't have to specify -Dselinux=false to get glib to build.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792129
Properly define GLIB/GOBJECT_STATIC_COMPILATION when static build is enabled.
Use library() instead of shared_library() to allow selecting static builds.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784995
The m4 and bash completion items are usable and relevant
depending on the host system's configuration. So, we check for the
presence of the programs that these items depend on, and only install
them when those programs are found.
For the Valgrind suppression files, we don't install them on Windows as
Valgrind is currently not supported on Windows.
Als fix the path where the GDB helpers are installed, as the path is
incorrectly constructed.
This will fix the "install" stage when building on Visual Studio at
least as there are some post-install steps that are related to them,
which will make use of these programs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783270
We want to set _WIN32_WINNT so that functions will be properly found in
the headers, to target the NT6.1+ (Windows 7+) APIs.
Also improve the checks for if_nametoindex() and if_indextoname() on
Windows as they are supported in Windows Vista+, but they have
to be checked by linking against iphlpapi.lib (or -liphlpapi). On other
platforms, they are still checked as they were before.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783270
Instead of hardcoding -DPCRE_STATIC into the CFLAGS of GLib, do the
following on Windows only (since PCRE_STATIC only matters on Windows):
-If there is no installed PCRE, use the included PCRE copy and
enable -DPCRE_STATIC, as we did before.
-If there is a installed PCRE, check whether the PCRE build is a static
or DLL build by checking the linkage against pcre_free() with
PCRE_STATIC defined works. If it does, enable -DPCRE_STATIC.
-On non-Windows builds, do not enable -DPCRE_STATIC
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783270
The HAVE_GOOD_PRINTF config variable determines whether we are able to
use the CRT-supplied *printf() functions directly, by determining whether
the CRT-supplied vsnprintf() and snprintf() functions support C99 well
enough.
This means, we need to build the gnulib subdir as a static lib in GLib, and use
the gnulib *printf() functions when:
-We are on Windows
-The CRT's vsnprintf() and snprintf() is not sufficiently C99-compliant.
This will fix the problem when the *printf() functions cause a CRT
abort() call on pre-2015 Visual Studio builds at least, and ensures that
the Visual Studio 2015+ builds will pass the printf tests in GLib, since
the *printf() in Visual Studio 2015/2017's CRT does not support the %n
format specifier, nor the positional parameters (which requires
different _*printf_p*() functions), as indicated by
glib/tests/test-printf.c.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783270
Copy the msvc_recommended_pragmas.h helper header when we build for
Windows, so that people developing/using GLib on Windows can make use
of them in Visual Studio, so that unwanted compiler noise can be
filtered out and code with potentially-problematic warnings can be
attended to.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783270
Some of the dependencies' build systems for Visual Studio do not provide a
pkg-config file upon build, so we use find_library() for them when the
corresponding pkg-config files are not found during Visual Studio builds,
so that one will not need to make up pkg-config files for them, which
could be error-prone. These .lib names match the names that are built
with the officially supported build system that is used by their
respective Visual Studio support.
For ZLib, this will make gio-2.0.pc reflect on the zlib .lib based on
what is found, or whether we use the fallback/bundled ZLib, when we
don't have a pkg-config file for ZLib on MSVC. We still need to depend
on Meson to be updated to put the correct link argument for linking ZLib
in the pkg-config case.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783270
Without this, GNU-specific symbols won't be defined and the compiler
check will pass because GCC will assume that you know what you're
doing since it doesn't know what the symbol prototype is and compiler
checks aren't built with -Wall -Werror.
This will then cause a build failure because the wrong prototype will
be used.
We use it pretty much everywhere in order to get feature detection, and
that's also what the AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS m4 macro defines in the
Autotools build.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785955
The Meson build has fallen a bit behind the Autotools one, when it comes
to the internally built tools like glib-mkenums and glib-genmarshals.
We don't need to generate gmarshal.strings any more, and since the
glib-genmarshal tool is now written in Python it can also be used when
cross-compiling, and without indirection, just like we use glib-mkenums.
We can also coalesce various rules into a simple array iteration, with
minimal changes to glib-mkenums, thus making the build a bit more
resilient and without unnecessary duplication.
On Visual Studio, the compilation of the check program for va_copy() and
__va_copy() succeeds even though they may not be really available. So,
make sure we include msvc_recommended_pragmas.h which helps us to detect
this situation by bailing out when warning C4013 (which means this
function is really not available) is encountered.
Also make sure that on Visual Studio builds we always include
msvc_recommended_pragmas.h is included so that it helps us to find out
problems in the build, and update comments for dirent.h and sys/time.h
as they are not shipped with any Visual Studio.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783270
This reduces the build-time dependencies of glib to only Python 3,
Meson, and git. Git is also optional if you provide a tarball in
which the subproject directories already exist.
The Python port was done by Jussi Pakkanen on bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779332
This version contains some fixes from that and also changes all
instances of `@` to `\u0040` because Meson does not yet provide a
configure_file() mode that ignores unknown @MACRO@ values.
This is a stub-only library that can be used while building against
MSVC and contains no i18n machinery at all.
The dependencies added indirectly use the libintl.h header, and when
built as a subproject, the header won't be in a path known the
pre-processor.
When no 'name:' kwarg is specified for cc.run, no output is printed.
This makes it difficult to figure out what is causing a pause in the
configure process.
By default, only build man pages and gtk-doc if the build-deps were
found. To force-enable, pass -Dwith-docs=yes and -Dwith-man=yes.
Also use a foreach loop for man pages instead of listing them all
manually
Don't use it project-wide for building everything. Otherwise
symbols for shared modules won't be exposed, e.g. in the
resourceplugin used by the gio resource unit test.
