We need to run it for the tests, even if programs are disabled. So if
they are disabled, create a build rule for the program, but don't
install it. Just make it available for the test itself.
It depends on the zstd program being built, and passes it as an env
variable. Just like datagen. But for datagen, we explicitly depend on
it, while for zstd, we assume it's built as part of "all".
This can be wrong in two cases:
- when running individual tests, meson can (re)build just what is needed
for that one test
- a later patch will handle building zstd but not by default
There are a couple of oddities here. We don't attempt to build e.g.
contrib, because that doesn't seem to work at the moment. Also notice
that each command is its own step. This happens because github actions
runs in powershell, which doesn't seem to let you abort on the first
failure.
playTests.sh has an option to run really slow tests. This is enabled by
default in Meson, but what we really want is to do like the Makefile,
and run the fast ones by default, but with an option to run the slow
ones instead.
It's entirely possible some people don't have valgrind installed, but
still want to run the tests. If they don't have it installed, then they
probably don't intend to run those precise test targets anyway.
Also, this solves an error when running the tests in an automated
environment. The valgrind tests have a hard dependency on behavior such
as `./zstd` erroring out with the message "stdin is a console, aborting"
which does not work if the automated environment doesn't have a console.
As a rough heuristic, automated environments lacking a console will
*probably* also not have valgrind, so avoiding that test definition
neatly sidesteps the issue.
Also, valgrind is not easily installable on macOS, at least homebrew
says it isn't available there. This makes it needlessly hard to
enable the testsuite on macOS.
In commit 031de3c69c a feature of Meson
0.50.0 was added, but the minimum specified version of Meson is 0.48.0.
Meson therefore emitted a warning:
WARNING: Project targets '>=0.48.0' but uses feature introduced in '0.50.0': required arg in compiler.has_header.
And if anyone actually used Meson 0.48.0 to build with, it would error
out with mysterious claims that the build file itself is invalid, rather
than telling the user to install a newer version of Meson.
Solve this by bumping the minimum version to align with reality. This
e.g. drops support for Debian oldstable (buster)'s packaged version of
Meson, but still works if backports are enabled, or if the user can
`pip install` a newer version.
In commit 031de3c69c some code was added
that returned a boolean, but was treated as if it returned a dependency
object. This wasn't tested and could not work. Moreover, zstd no longer
built at all unless the entire programs directory was disabled and not
even evaluated.
Fix the return type checking.
It uses non-portable compiler options unconditionally. Elsewhere, we
check the compiler ID and only add the right ones, globally. Do the same
here.
NDEBUG can actually be handled by a core option, so while we are moving
things around, do so.
Unfortunately, this doesn't fix things entirely. The remaining issue is
not Meson's issue though -- MSVC simply does not like this source code
and somehow chokes on innocent code with the inscrutable "syntax error"
and "illegal token".
Run the scraper command to establish the project version immediately,
rather than wait for the build to be configured. This simplifies the
code and ensures that project introspection works correctly.
Partial, Meson-only implementation of #2976 for non-MSVC builds.
Due to the prevalence of private symbol reuse, linking to a shared
library is simply utterly unreliable, but we still want to defer to the
shared library for installable applications. By linking to both, we can
share symbols where possible, and statically link where needed.
This means we no longer need to manually track every file that needs to
be extracted and reused.
The flip side is that MSVC completely does not support this, so for MSVC
builds we just link to a full static copy even where
-Ddefault_library=shared.
As a side benefit, by using library inclusion rather than including
extra explicit object files, the zstd program shrinks in size slightly
(~4kb).
These need to be explicitly included as we use their private symbols,
but we don't need to recompile them when we can reuse the existing
objects.
Minus 7 compile steps.
The poolTests program already linked to libzstd, and later to
libtestcommon with included libzstd objects. So this was redundant.
Minus 4 compile steps.
Currently the build errors out with:
```
ERROR: This script does not work on Python 3.6 The minimum supported Python version is 3.7. Please use https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.6/get-pip.py instead.
```
While in theory this advice could be followed to get a better pip on
xenial, Meson has now deprecated python 3.6 support too, and the next
(unreleased) version requires python 3.7
There are a couple solutions to this:
- hold the version of pip, allow pip to only install 3.6-compatible
versions of meson (effectively freezing meson going forward)
- install python 3.7 on xenial
- update to a 2-year-old image instead of a 4-year-old one
Option 3 is the simplest.
While trying to raise an exception on failures, it instead raised an
exception for misusing the exception. CalledProcessError is only
supposed to be used when given a return code and a command, and it
prints:
Command '{cmd}' returned non-zero exit status {ret}
Passing an error message string instead, just errored out with:
TypeError: __init__() missing 1 required positional argument
Instead use the subprocess module's base error which does accept string
messages. Everything that used to error out, still errors out, but now
they do so with a slightly prettier console message.
libm is not guaranteed to exist. POSIX requires the math functions to
exist, but doesn't require to have it be a standalone library.
On platforms where libm exists as a standalone library, it will always
be found by meson -- it is shipped with libc.
If it is not found, then we can safely assume the linker will make the
math functions available by default.
See https://mesonbuild.com/howtox.html#add-math-library-lm-portably
Fixes building with bin_tests=true on Windows.
Regression from commit a5f2c45528. It is
not possible to unconditionally add the asm sources, since not all
compilers understand the .s file extension.
Specifically for meson, only compilers inheriting from the GNU mixin
will allow a .s file at configure time.
zstd doesn't support asm for MSVC for the same basic reason; if/when
Windows asm support is added, it would involve preprocessing with nasm,
most likely.
This matches the Makefile build. Due to one private xxhash symbol in use
by the program, it recompiles a private copy of xxhash.
Due to the test binaries making extensive (?) use of private symbols, it
doesn't even attempt to link to shared libzstd, and instead, all of the
original object files are added to libtestcommon itself for private
linkage. This, too, matches the Makefile build.
Ref. #2261
meson prefers that project-level options for Wall/Wextra/pedantic be
used, rather than hardcoding raw flags in add_project_arguments. If you
do the latter anyway, it raises a meson warning.
Set the default options for the project to use all this.
Also move the -Werror comment to the project default options with
appropriate format, but leave it commented out since it does not work.
Eli Schwartz