We have a common pattern for reference counting in GLib, but we always
implement it with ad hoc code. This is a good chance at trying to
standardise the implementation and make it public, so that other code
using GLib can take advantage of shared behaviour and semantics.
Instead of simply taking an integer variable, we should create type
aliases, to immediately distinguish the reference counting semantics of
the code; we can handle mixing atomic reference counting with a
non-atomic type (and vice versa) by using differently signed values for
the atomic and non-atomic cases.
The gatomicrefcount type is modelled on the Linux kernel refcount_t
type; the grefcount type is added to let single-threaded code bases to
avoid paying the price of atomic memory barriers on reference counting
operations.
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
On non-glibc platforms gettext is provided by extra libintl dependency.
We wrongly thought libintl is an internal dependency and applications
needs to explicitly link on it, but turns out that breaks many
applications and with autotools the .pc generated actually has -lintl in
public "Libs:".
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796085
-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
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
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
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.
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.
Disable gio tests on Windows, fix .gitignore to not ignore
config.h.meson, and add more things to it.
Rename the library file naming and versioning to match what Autotools
outputs, e.g., libglib-2.0.so.0.5000.2 on Linux, libglib-2.0-0.dll and
glib-2.0-0.dll on Windows with MSVC.
Several more tiny fixes, more executables built and installed, install
pkg-config and m4 files, fix building of gobject tests.
Changes to gdbus-codegen to support out-of-tree builds without
environment variables set (which you can't in Meson). We now add the
build directory to the Python module search path.
