According to POSIX, the default behavior of `dlopen` is unspecified when
its flags include neither `RTLD_LOCAL` nor `RTLD_GLOBAL`. Consequently,
different platforms have different default behavior.
The default on Linux is `RTLD_LOCAL`, but the default on Darwin is
`RTLD_GLOBAL`. By passing `0` to `dlopen`, this results in the opposite
of the caller's intent when using `G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL`.
Passing `RTLD_LOCAL` for `G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL` allows the correct
behavior to be observed regardless of the platform's default.
Basically various trivial instances of the following MSVC compiler
warning:
```
../gio/gio-tool-set.c(50): warning C4267: '=': conversion from 'size_t' to 'int', possible loss of data
```
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
When linking static libraries, multiple resources is an error unless
handled in a special way. glib and gobject do not have this problem,
as they already only include resources when building a shared lib.
Generating gir and typelib files has inter-dependencies that may depend
on other elements.
For example, glib requires gobject and gdump generated files require
gmodule, so we've a cyclic dependency because gmodule requires gobject,
that requires glib.
To prevent this, let's just generate the introspection files at once in
a different meson file so that we don't have to deal with this.
As per this we could even revert commit fa37ab6d0 since gio is now
compiled before the gir files.
Currently, the introspection data for GLib and its sub-libraries is
generated by gobject-introspection, to avoid the cyclic dependency
between the two projects.
Since gobject-introspection is generally available on installed systems,
we can check for its presence, and generate the introspection data
directly from GLib.
This does introduce a cyclic dependency, which is why it's possible to
build GLib without introspection, then build gobject-introspection, and
finally rebuild GLib.
By having introspection data available during the GLib build, we can do
things like generating documentation; validating newly added API; and
close the loop between adding new API and it becoming available to non-C
consumers of the C ABI (i.e. language bindings).
This reverts commit 004f48f4fc.
Per the discussion on #3356, this change was prompted by a
misunderstanding of ldflags/link_args, and it resulted in various other
packages using glib no longer getting symbols exported. This commit
restores the glib 2.76 behaviour.
Various gio modules include gmodule.h that requires the
gmodule-visibility.h to be already built.
To make this easier, just provide a dependency and use it where we are
building modules that do not depend on libgio_dep (that already includes
that).
Fixes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2982
Previously, `-Wl,--export-dynamic` was in `Libs` key of `gmodule-2.0.pc`,
even though `-Wl` is a compiler flag, rather than a linker one.
This caused issues with API reference builds in evolution-data-server,
which passes the output of `pkg-config --libs` through `--ldflags`
argument of `gtkdoc-scan`, which are forwarded unchanged to `ld`:
ld: unrecognized option '-Wl,--export-dynamic'
Let’s move the flag to `Cflags` so that the compiler can deal with it.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/-/issues/463
In all these cases we don't really care about running the test file,
while building and basic execution it is relevant.
Also they don't support TAP at all.
Meson supports tap protocol results parsing, allowing us to track better
the tests that are running (and the ones that are actually skipped) without
manually parsing the test output.
However this also implies that using the verbose mode for a test doesn't
show its output by default (unless there are failures).
We cannot use `gvisibility_h` for different visibility header files; you
never know when you're going to refer to the variable again, and
projects might end up needing to retrieve the variable contents—like,
for instance, gobject-introspection using glib as a subproject.
This should fix the Coverity build, which is currently broken:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/jobs/2389979
```
../gmodule/gmodule-deprecated.c:8: error: "GLIB_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS" redefined [-Werror]
8 | #define GLIB_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS
|
<command-line>: note: this is the location of the previous definition
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
```
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
This reverts commit 476e33c3f3.
We’ve decided to remove `G_OS_DARWIN` in favour of recommending people
use `__APPLE__` instead. As per the discussion on #2802 and linked
issues,
* Adding a new define shifts the complexity from “which of these
platform-provided defines do I use” to “which platform-provided
defines does G_OS_DARWIN use”
* There should ideally be no cases where a user of GLib has to use
their own platform-specific code, since GLib should be providing
appropriate abstractions
* Providing a single `G_OS_DARWIN` to cover all Apple products (macOS
and iOS) hides the complexity of what the user is actually testing:
are they testing for the Mach kernel, the Carbon and/or Cocoa user
space toolkits, macOS vs iOS vs tvOS, etc
Helps: #2802
Given that it can be computed using an error-prone strings comparisons it
is better to provide a variable everywhere, so that we don't have the
risk of comparing values that are always false.
We have tests that are failing in some environments, but it's
difficult to handle them because:
- for some environments we just allow all the tests to fail: DANGEROUS
- when we don't allow failures we have flacky tests: A CI pain
So, to avoid this and ensure that:
- New failing tests are tracked in all platforms
- gitlab integration on tests reports is working
- coverage is reported also for failing tests
Add support for `can_fail` keyword on tests that would mark the test as
part of the `failing` test suite.
Not adding the suite directly when defining the tests as this is
definitely simpler and allows to define conditions more clearly (see next
commits).
Now, add a default test setup that does not run the failing and flaky tests
by default (not to bother distributors with testing well-known issues) and
eventually run all the tests in CI:
- Non-flaky tests cannot fail in all platforms
- Failing and Flaky tests can fail
In both cases we save the test reports so that gitlab integration is
preserved.
G_MODULE_SUFFIX is deprecated now because you will get the wrong
results using it most of the time:
1. The suffix on macOS is usually 'dylib', but it's 'so' when using
Autotools, so there's no way to get the suffix correct using
a pre-processor macro.
2. Prefixes also vary in a platform-specific way. You may or may not have
a 'lib' prefix for the name on Windows and on Cygwin the prefix is
'cyg'.
3. The library name itself can vary per platform. For instance, you may
want to load foo-1.dll on Windows and libfoo.1.dylib on macOS. This
is for libraries, not modules, but that is still a use-case that
people use the GModule API for.
g_module_build_path() does take care of (2) on Cygwin, but it
fundamentally cannot handle the possibility of multiple options for
the module name, since it does not do any I/O. Hence, it is also
deprecated.
Instead, g_module_open() has been improved so that it takes care of
all this by searching the filesystem for combinations of possible
suffixes and prefixes on each platform. Along the way, the
documentation for it was also improved to make it clearer what it
does.
Closes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/520
Closes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/1413
In principle we could script this so that each max-version.c is compiled
26 times, once per possible MAX_VERSION, but I haven't implemented
that here: just pinning to the oldest possible version is sufficient to
reproduce #2796.
These aren't included in the installed-tests, since they don't really
do anything at runtime (the important thing is that they compile
without warnings).
Reproduces: #2796
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
There is currently no `dllimport` attribute on any of our function,
which prevents MSVC to optimize function calls.
To fix that issue, we need to redeclare all our visibility macros for
each of our libraries, because when compiling e.g. GIO code, we need
dllimport in GLIB headers and dllexport in GIO headers. That means they
cannot use the same GLIB_AVAILABLE_* macro.
Since that's a lot of boilerplate to copy/paste after each version bump,
this MR generate all those macros using a python script.
Also simplify the meson side by using `gnu_symbol_visibility : 'hidden'`
keyword argument instead of passing the cflag manually.
This leaves only API index to add manually into glib-docs.xml when
bumping GLib version. That file cannot be generated because Meson does
not allow passing a buit file to gnome.gtkdoc()'s main_xml kwarg
unfortunately.
Otherwise, the build will fail when the toolchain is static-only, even
with -Ddefault_library=static. I talked to a Meson developer in their
IRC channel, who told me that the correct fix was to ensure that
shared_library is only used if default_library != static.
