We have fallback in places for GNU's variadic arguments in macros, and
for static inline functions with variadic arguments as an fallback of
last resort, but going forward we are going to depend on `__VA_ARGS__`
for macros that cannot be re-implemented using a static inline function.
Fixes: #2681
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
The definitions weren’t templated in glibconfig.h.in at all, so didn’t
vary between configurations of GLib — so they should be in a normal
header.
Move them to gutils.h and fix the deprecation annotations.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
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
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
They are not supported by Visual Studio, so only define them in
glibconfig.h.in when not on Visual Studio. Fixes builds of GTK+-2.x
against Meson/MSVC builds of GLib.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783270
