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
Port all existing calls in GLib to the new API so that they can receive
more detailed error information (although none of them actually make use
of it at the moment).
This also serves to test the new API better through use.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #203
On Visual Studio, Meson builds modules as xxxx.dll, not libxxxx.dll when
xxxx is specified as the name for the shared_module() build directive.
This means that in the test programs if we expect for libxxxx for the
module name, the test will fail as there is no libxxxx.dll but there is
xxxx.dll. This makes the test program look for the module files
correctly.
gen-casefold-txt.pl and gen-casemap-txt.pl are licensed under GPLv2+, so
they are not touched by this commit.
A lot of *.c files in tests/ don't have a license header.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776504
This should be the last users that need to be ported.
For some of the oldschool non-gtester-ified tests, we call g_test_init()
from main() because it is necessary in order to use
g_test_build_filename().
We only want to control the default visibility for our five main
installable libraries: libglib, libgthread, libgmodule, libgobject,
libgio. We should therefore only set -fvisibility=hidden when building
those.
Use a separate substitution variable for this purpose.
Using CFLAGS directly leads to some modules built in testcases not
exporting their symbols (and then the tests fail). It also affects the
fam file monitoring module.
Colin had originally done it this way in his visibility patch series but
I failed to understand why so I didn't copy it. Now I do.
Also: revert changes made to two testcases in an attempt to work around
this issue.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691756
I'm normally a big fan of small atomic commits, but I also want to get
things done this afternoon...
Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687441
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
2002-07-04 Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
* tests/*.c: Added #undef G_DISABLE_ASSERT and #undef G_LOG_DOMAIN
throughout the files, which didn't already have them. (#87312)
Wed Jun 20 12:00:54 2001 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
Changes for 64-bit cleanliness, loosely based on patch
from Mark Murnane.
* gconvert.c (g_convert/g_convert_with_fallback): Remove
workarounds for since-fixed GNU libc bugs. Minor
doc fix.
* gconvert.[ch]: Change gint to gsize/gssize as
appropriate.
* gconvert.c (g_locale/filename_to/from_utf8): Fix incorrect
computation of bytes_read / bytes_written.
* gfileutils.[ch] (g_file_get_contents): Make length
out parameter 'gsize *len'.
* ghook.c (g_hook_compare_ids): Don't compare a
and b as 'a - b'.
* gmacros.h (GSIZE_TO_POINTER): Add GPOINTER_TO_SIZE,
GSIZE_TO_POINTER.
* gmain.c (g_timeout_prepare): Rewrite to avoid
overflows. (Fixes bug when system clock skews
backwards more than 24 days.)
* gmarkup.[ch]: Make lengths passed to callbacks
gsize, length for g_markup_parse-context_parse(),
g_markup_escape_text() gssize.
* gmessages.[ch] (g_printf_string_upper_bound): Change
return value to gsize.
* gmessages.c (printf_string_upper_bound): Remove
a ridiculous use of 'inline' on a 300 line function.
* gstring.[ch]: Represent size of string as a gsize,
not gint. Make parameters to functions take gsize,
or gssize where -1 is allowed.
* gstring.c (g_string_erase): Make
g_string_erase (string, pos, -1) a synonym for
g_string_truncate for consistency with other G*
APIs.
* gstrfuncs.[ch]: Make all functions taking a string
length, take a gsize, or gssize if -1 is allowed.
(g_strstr_len, g_strrstr_len). Also fix some boundary
conditions in g_str[r]str[_len].
* gutf8.c tests/unicode-encoding.c: Make parameters that
are byte lengths gsize, gssize as appropriate. Make
character offsets, other counts, glong.
* gasyncqueue.c gcompletion.c
timeloop.c timeloop-basic.c gutils.c gspawn.c.
Small 64 bit cleanliness fixups.
* glist.c (g_list_sort2, g_list_sort_real): Fix functions
that should have been static.
* gdate.c (g_date_fill_parse_tokens): Fix extra
declaration that was shadowing another.
* tests/module-test.c: Include string.h
Mon Jun 18 15:43:29 2001 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* gutf8.c (g_get_charset): Make argument
G_CONST_RETURN char **.
2000-12-22 Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
* configure.in: Determine the suffix of the shared librarries for
this system. This is done analogous to
ltconfig.sh. G_MODULE_SUFFIX in glibconfig.h is set to either
"sl", "dll", or (most often) "so".
* tests/Makefile.am, tests/module-test.c,
tests/libmoduletestplugin_a.c, tests/libmoduletestplugin_b.c:
Added new testcase for gmodule. This is mostly copied from
gmodule/testgmodule.c, but unlike that is is quiet. (Why BTW are
some tests that verbose, not to say loquacious...)
* gmodule.c: Make g_module_open more tolerant wrt to the module
name. First it tries to open the module as named, if that fails,
it checks, whether it is a libtool archive and parses it, if that
fails it appends the systems shared library suffix
(i.e. ".so") (if not already found) and tries again and if that
fails it tries to append the ".la" libtool suffix (if not already
found) and parses it.
* gmodule.c: Lock recursive mutex during most module functions for
safety.
* gmodule-dl.c: Return an error from _g_module_symbol only, if
dlerror says so. All other functions return an error as well, if
dlerror returns NULL.
* testgmodule.c: Thanks to the above change the #ifdefs have
vanished.
* glib/glib-sections.txt: Added G_MODULE_SUFFIX.
* glib/tmpl/modules.sgml: Updated.
