The idea is two-fold:
- Replace autotools with Meson
- Build each library in its own derivation
The interaction of these two features is that Meson's "subprojects"
feature (https://mesonbuild.com/Subprojects) allows us to have single
dev shell for building all libraries still, while also building things
separately. This allows us to break up the build without a huge
productivity lost.
I tested the Linux native build, and NetBSD and Windows cross builds.
Also do some clean ups of the Flake in the process of supporting new
jobs.
Special thanks to everyone that has worked on a Meson port so far,
@p01arst0rm and @Qyriad in particular.
Co-Authored-By: p01arst0rm <polar@ever3st.com>
Co-Authored-By: Artemis Tosini <lix@artem.ist>
Co-Authored-By: Artemis Tosini <me@artem.ist>
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Co-Authored-By: Jade Lovelace <lix@jade.fyi>
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Co-Authored-By: Maximilian Bosch <maximilian@mbosch.me>
Co-Authored-By: Pierre Bourdon <delroth@gmail.com>
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Co-Authored-By: Rebecca Turner <rbt@sent.as>
Co-Authored-By: Winter <winter@winter.cafe>
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This makes for shorter and more portable code.
The only tricky part is catching exceptions: I just searched for near by
`catch (Error &)` or `catch (SysError &)` and adjusted them to `catch
(std::filesystem::filesystem_error &)` according to my human judgement.
Good for windows portability; will help @siddhantk232 with his GSOC
project.
Forcing a conditional include, vs making the headers content
conditional, I think is more maintainable.
It is also how the other platform-specific headers (like
`namespaces.hh`) have been adapted.
This splits files and adds new identifiers in preperation for supporting
windows, but no Windows-specific code is actually added yet.
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
