See: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/9653#note_1780587
Looking at MSYS2 logs, it looks like they very recently "fixed" the search paths
for lua files, which in turn broke our workaround (searching in subdirectories
of bin/ instead of share/ and lib/).
This should work better (though untested) with the workaround removed now.
Commit on luajit package at MSYS2:
703c7bae2f
The creation of the BMP welcome images for the Windows installer (part of
-Dwindows-installer=true build option) fails in the Windows job. After much
debugging, I could run GIMP, yet it was not enough. One of my hypothesis so far
is that the environment variables for DLLs won't work, since all the DLLs must
be in the same directory as the main binary (though with the WSL thing, I am
unsure, maybe it is still supposed to work), which only happens once GIMP is
installed. So GIMP runs successfully but not plug-ins.
Anyway I wasted too much time working on this and without a local Windows, it
just takes too long (mostly testing thanks to the CI) and is frustrating. Let's
just move to building both the localization files and the images on the main
Debian job (gimp-meson-debian), then use these as dependencies of the
win-installer-nightly job, i.e. when building the installer.
After discussion with Jernej, InnoSetup should now work better with rescaling
a big image properly to the window size, yet the ratio should still matter.
Apparently the welcome image is a hack and this is why it requires specific
ratio images. We don't use the big size yet, but since Jernej told me which
dimensions are expected, I already added the code for it to make it easier
later.
So anyway this code would allow us not to have to commit welcome images each
time, which are basically resized copy in BMP of the splash screen, slowly yet
surely filling up our repository with image duplicates.
After all, we develop a scriptable image editor! We should use it to edit images
and export in expected formats!
I only use this script for the devel installer for now, for testing and see how
it goes.
While some packages may be needed only when building (and others only when
packaging), we should probably have a shared list of packages needed for both
steps so that we avoid discrepancies which lead to missing libraries in our
installer.
See: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/9653#note_1777596
Because of this, the script was failing to get the version string, which
in turn was breaking InnoSetup.
This fixes the following InnoSetup bug:
> Error on line 116 in C:\_r\_builds\k3_3muaB\0\GNOME\gimp\build\windows\installer\gimp3264.iss: Value of [Setup] section directive "VersionInfoVersion" is invalid.
… for Windows.
Though it's useless for actually building the GIR files, we still need
this package now, for building script-fu with introspection abilities,
to generate GIMP and GEGL enums.
See the 2 previous commits for more information.
Switch to NASA-maintained cfitsio library for loading/exporting FITS images.
This allows us to import compressed FITS files (GZIP, HCOMP, PLIO, RICE) in
8/16/32 bit and float/double precision. It also simplifies export code using
the built-in cfitsio APIs.
The Hungarian language file for the Windows installer was recently moved
from unofficial to the officially supported languages. However, a new
release including Hungarian by default is not available yet. This causes
our CI to fail because it can't find Hungarian in unofficial.
We change our ci script to download Hungarian from the correct location
for official languages, and adapt gimp3264.iss to reflect the correct
location.
intltool has long been dead upstream. Let's not poke the dead corpse,
please.
This commit is quite large, but that's mostly since trying to support a
hybrid of both gettext and intltool with both Meson and Autotools was
really hard, so I stopped trying.
Due to gettext relying on quite some things being at the exactly right
place in the autotools build (like `ABOUT-NLS` and `config.rpath`) we
really needed to cleanup the `autogen.sh` to only call `aclocal` and
`autoreconf`. No more strange magic; I tried to do it without changing
too much in the file, and things just broke. If people want to do
something more custom, they can just change the script directly. This
change also uncovered some problems in our `configure.ac`, like using
deprecated macros.
The following major changes happened:
* meson: Changed `custom_target()` to `i18n.merge_file()` for all
supported file types
* Added `.its` and `.loc` files for the GIMP-specific XML formats, so
that gettext understands them
* For the `.isl` (Window installer stuff) file, there's no easy way to
do this in gettext, so instead we start from an XML file (again with
its own ITS rules etc), translate that with gettext, and then use
`xsltproc` with a bit of magic to output the .isl file for each
language
* the `po*/Makefile.in.in` files are migrated to `Makevars` files,
which gettext natively understands.
Fixes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/8028
It looks like the gi-docgen build is broken on Windows (though the CI
does show neither stdout nor stderr output, just a failure without
message). This should be fixed, but it's not necessary for the installer
at least.
Note: on autotools, the gi-docgen step works fine on Windows.
We didn't need to do this on the autotools build, simply because the
configure step is much more elaborated there, and was checking for the
header file as well as well as a working mng_create() API. But since
libmng was broken, the test failed, so we didn't need to disable it.
By the way, we should check when the `.pc` file was added, because if it
was after the required version, then the meson test is very wrong. It
should not have been different from the autotools file.
The meson build still has a bunch of issues and build bugs compared to
the autotools build, nevertheless the last blocker issue was dealt with
a few days ago (PDB source generation).
Moreover since the meson build on Windows especially makes such dramatic
difference, in terms of build speed, this is a big improvement for
Windows contributor's comfort, and as such is one less barrier of entry.
Anyway I believe that most Windows developers build GIMP with meson now
so sticking on autotools on this platform is just counter-productive.
This is why it was decided to now make meson the recommended build
system on Windows, as a further step toward a move to meson. It is still
not the recommended build system on the other platforms yet.
The --debug option so far would only output debug info. I want both the
run to actually occur and the debug to be printed, at least in some
cases. So I make this a choice option with 3 variants (no debug, debug
only and run + debug).
Some tools have been moved. `aclocal` (and likely other tools, but this
was the first one making an error in the deps-win*-native CI jobs) is
now in `automake-wrapper` package, which itself is a dependency of
`autotools`.
Cf. https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/11114
We were already avoiding re-processing a same DLL within the same run
(this can happen when 2 dependencies have themselves a common
dependency). But the dll_link.py script was stateless regarding previous
runs so we might be checking again the same DLLs multiple times (even
though we were not copying them again).
Let's make the script stateful with a new parameter to give a file where
all the previously processed DLL names are stored. I am hoping it would
improve the efficiency of the packaging-win32-native which is suddenly
extra slow (it always times out, even after raising the max job time;
now we time out after 2h30! The 64-bit packaging job just takes 1h,
which is too much already, but still much more reasonable).
Also improving a bit the download script by specifying the .isl or .islu
file extension. It's nicer than trying to download randomly, and also it
allows to better compare the list of downloaded files with the list in
gimp3264.iss script.
My previous command was also adding a linefeed just after the BOM. While
I'm not sure it would really break anything for processing these, it's
anyway much more correct to only add the 3 BOM bytes. So here is the
improved command.
Also some language files are supposed to be UTF-8 yet they are missing
the BOM markup (only method to recognize them for InnoSetup). This is
the case for Chinese Traditional. See issue #7676.
Make sure that this lang file has a BOM.
The patch we needed to test needs completion, so it's of no use to
continue building it until this happens.
Also for some reason, the x86_64 build of GTK3 takes forever and times
out (the same build for 32-bit x86 is done quickly as expected) on
repeated occasions. Since this is unneeded right now, rather than
wasting time on this, I just delete this dep build to use the pre-built
MSYS2 package.
I noticed in our build logs such output:
> Saving to: ‘Basque.isl.53’
Wget does not override same-named files and would append a number. The
thing is that we are not supposed to have other .isl files over there,
but I think current Windows runners on Gitlab are not properly wiped
out. That must be why we get remnant of old files.
Anyway this will make sure we override, hence use the last version of
translations (otherwise we are stuck to old versions as long as they are
not wiped out, since the downloaded file is not properly named).
I forgot to do this so GIMP 2.99.8 official release is marked as
"unknown" instead of our official build. It's alright for this one
(especially for a dev release), just setting this straight for further
builds.
Anyway we disabled use of ccache in an earlier commit 2da70b3fb7 because
of a bug in MSYS2's CPython. So there is no need to call these commands
either. Also it seems to be breaking the 32-bit native Windows build
(from CI log, I am unsure this is because of ccache, but the break
happens just after running `ccache --zero-stats`).
All the os.EX_* constants are Unix-only (and possibly not even not on
all Unix/Linux-like platforms, according to docs) so we should not use
them, especially for a script which we may use on Windows (we also run
it when cross-compiling from Linux, but natively on Windows as well).
Fixes this exception (which would only happen when there is another
critical issue anyway, so it's not making a bigger problem; yet it's
better to cleanly exit with an error code rather than by an exception):
> File "C:\_r\_builds\k3_3muaB\0\GNOME\gimp\build\windows\gitlab-ci\dll_link.py", line 124, in copy_dlls
sys.exit(os.EX_DATAERR)
> AttributeError: module 'os' has no attribute 'EX_DATAERR'
