[FriBidi] fribidi and meson

[Dov Grobgeld]

Hi John,

I decided to have a look at the meson build, to learn about it, and also to
make sure that things are working smoothly under Windows.

Here is roughly what I did to make the compilation working:


   1. Installed
   https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.4/python-3.6.4-amd64.exe
   2. Installed meson through pip
   python -m pip install meson
   3. Installed ninja.exe for windows and put in the path.
   4. Did a fresh git checkout of the main branch of fribidi.
   5. Opened a visual studio command prompt
   6. compiled fribidi through the following two commands:

   meson -buildtype release build_release
   ninja -C build_release

   7. Tested the visual studio backend through:
   meson -backend vs2010 -buiildtype release
   8. Opened visual studio, loaded the project, and tested a compilation.

This worked, so I tried running the tests as well through:

ninja -C build_release test

This ran all the fribidi.exe based tests (except one, which I fixed in
git), but it did not run the BidiTest and BidiCharacterTest tests, that
depend on glib, which is not available by default on Windows.

So I rewrote these two c-programs to remove all glib dependencies, and then
the tests then run under Windows as well.

But... And here is the strange part: BidiTest passed under debug but failed
on the release build! I don't know if this is a bug in the Microsoft VS2013
compiler, or something unitialized variable or something else. (An
interesting detail is that all the tests that failed involved FSI.) I
opened the following bug about it:
https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/issues/71 . It would be interesting to
know if this happens only under VS2013 and not under later versions.

Regards,

Dov

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 8:26 AM, John Emmas <john at creativepost.co.uk> wrote:

> On 08/03/2018 22:39, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
>>
>> Please consult the official documentation, FriBiDi’s mailing list might
>> not be the best place to ask about meson:
>>
>>
> Thanks Khaled but I'm guessing that if it's possible for FriBIDI to build
> MSVC projects (or libraries) it can only do this if its meson build script
> has been suitably configured?  Before I move my question to the meson
> community, can I at least check if other FriBIDI users are managing to
> build FriBIDI with MSVC?  And if so, are they doing this via meson?
>
> Or is there some alternative build strategy I should be looking at?
> Regards,
>
> John
>
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