Simplified meson build by making dependencies sub projects

Author: dov

INSTALL.md

@@ -20,74 +20,29 @@ libdcmtk-dev libpcre3-dev gcc g++ libsndfile-dev \
 libglm-dev 
 ```
 
-## gob2
-
-- Clone is a gtk preprocessor, which was modified for giv and the following version must be used.
-- Clone from: https://github.com/dov/gob2/tree/cpp-new 
-- Check out the `cpp-new` branch. 
-- Compile as follows:
-```
-./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
-make install
-```
-
-## plis
-
-- plis is a string library developed by the author.
-- Install as follows:
-```
-git clone http://github.com/dov/libplis
-cd libplis/libplis
-scons -u install
-```
-
 # Linux
 
-The prefered building system is scons under Linux. automake is currently broken, and I started porting to meson, but I haven't finished it. 
+The prefered building system is meson under Linux. 
 
 ## Prerequisites for giv
 
-### libplis
-
-This is a small c++ string library that I have been using for various projects. To install do:
-
-```
-git clone http://github.com/dov/libplis
-cd libplis
-meson setup build && cd build && ninja 
-sudo ninja install
-```
-
-### gob2
-
-This is a small c++ string library that I have been using for various projects. To install do:
-
-```
-git clone http://github.com/dov/gob2
-cd gob2
-git checkout cpp-new
-./autogen.sh 
-make -j 8
-make install
-```
-
 ## Prerequisites for the plugins
 
 - cfitsio-devel
 - dcmtk
 - libwebp
 
-These are all available by dnf
+These are all available by dnf or apt. However, if the dependencies are not found, the plugins are skipped automatically during build.
 
 ## Building giv
 
 After all the above plugin have been installed, giv may be built:
 
-To build giv do in the top directory
-
 ```
-scons -j 8 
-scons -j 8 install
+meson setup build
+cd buid
+ninja
+ninja install
 ```
 
 # Windows

meson.build

@@ -1,11 +1,28 @@
-# Work in progress
 project('giv', ['c','cpp','vala'],
   version : '0.9.38',
   license: 'LGPLv3+')
 
+PACKAGE_DOC_DIR = 'doc'
+PACKAGE_PLUGIN_DIR = get_option('prefix') + 'lib/giv-1.0/plugins/'
+
 add_global_arguments('-DSPDLOG_FMT_EXTERNAL',
                      language : 'cpp')
 
+add_global_arguments(['-DPACKAGE_DOC_DIR="'+PACKAGE_DOC_DIR+'" ',
+                      '-DPACKAGE_PLUGIN_DIR="'+PACKAGE_PLUGIN_DIR+'" '],
+                     language : 'cpp')
+add_global_arguments(['-DPACKAGE_DOC_DIR="'+PACKAGE_DOC_DIR+'" ',
+                      '-DPACKAGE_PLUGIN_DIR="'+PACKAGE_PLUGIN_DIR+'" '],
+                     language : 'c')
+
+gob2_proj = subproject('gob2')
+
+libsimple_dep = dependency(
+  'libplis',
+  fallback : ['libplis', 'libplis_dep'],
+  default_options: ['default_library=static']
+)
+
 gnome = import('gnome')
 pkgconfig = import('pkgconfig')
 

src/giv-data.cc

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  * 
  */
 #include "giv-data.h"
-#include "plis/plis.h"
+#include "libplis/plis.h"
 
 using namespace plis;
 

src/giv-parser.cc

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #include "giv-parser.h"
 #include "giv-data.h"
 #include "GivStringArray.h"
-#include "plis/plis.h"
+#include "libplis/plis.h"
 #include "WordBoundaries.h"
 #include <iostream>
 #include <filesystem>

src/giv-win.gob

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ requires 2.0.0
 #include <math.h>
 #include <gtk/gtk.h>
 #include "giv-data.h"
-#include "plis/plis.h"
+#include "libplis/plis.h"
 #include "givimage.h"
 #include "glib-jsonrpc/glib-jsonrpc-server.h"
 %}

src/giv.cc

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #include "spdlog/spdlog.h"
 #include "spdlog/async_logger.h"
 #include <glib/gstdio.h>
-#include <plis/plis.h>
+#include <libplis/plis.h>
 
 
 const int GIV_DEFAULT_PORT = 8448;

src/gtkimageviewer/meson.build

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-gob2 = find_program('gob2')
 patch_src = find_program('patch_src.py')
 
+gob2 = gob2_proj.get_variable('gob2_exe')
+
 gen_src = custom_target('gen-output',
   output : ['gtk-image-viewer.h','gtk-image-viewer-private.h','gtk-image-viewer.c'],
   input : 'gtk-image-viewer.gob',

src/meson.build

@@ -1,14 +1,4 @@
-gob2 = find_program('gob2')
-
-PACKAGE_DOC_DIR = '../doc'
-PACKAGE_PLUGIN_DIR = '/usr/local/lib/giv-1.0/plugins/'
-
-add_global_arguments(['-DPACKAGE_DOC_DIR="'+PACKAGE_DOC_DIR+'" ',
-                      '-DPACKAGE_PLUGIN_DIR="'+PACKAGE_PLUGIN_DIR+'" '],
-                     language : 'cpp')
-add_global_arguments(['-DPACKAGE_DOC_DIR="'+PACKAGE_DOC_DIR+'" ',
-                      '-DPACKAGE_PLUGIN_DIR="'+PACKAGE_PLUGIN_DIR+'" '],
-                     language : 'c')
+gob2 = gob2_proj.get_variable('gob2_exe')
 
 giv_widget_src = custom_target('gen-output',
   output : ['giv-widget.h','giv-widget-private.h','giv-widget.cc'],
@@ -29,7 +19,6 @@ giv_widget_sources = [
   'giv-data.cc',
   'giv-markup.cc',
   'giv_agg_arrowhead.cc',
-  'giv-settings.cc',
   'clipper.cpp',
   'SutherlandHodgmanPolygonClipping.cc'
 ]
@@ -46,7 +35,7 @@ gtk_dep = dependency('gtk+-3.0')
 fmt_dep = dependency('fmt')
 spdlog_dep = dependency('spdlog')
 gmodule_dep = dependency('gmodule-2.0')
-libplis_dep = dependency('plis')
+libplis_dep = dependency('libplis')
 
 libgivwidget = shared_library(
   'giv-widget',