Breakpad Linux support

[fluffyfreak]

It looks like adding support for google breakpad to a Linux build should be fairly easy.

This would give it feature parity with the Windows build and might arguably be more useful.

[mike-f1]

@fluffyfreak , @impaktor give me an hint for this, so I think I could take care of this but I need some help...

First: in #3211 you mention the library is already installed... but where is it? I was unable to find it.

Could you briefly (and "as you talk with a child") explain how it's implemented right now for Windows?

[fluffyfreak]

Well the original PR is #3211 which includes all of the windows side files so you can see how I did it there :)

[fluffyfreak]

The actual breakpad files are in the pioneer-thirdparty folders.

[mike-f1]

ok, obviously I didn't got files are in "pioneer-thirdparty"... :/

Now I download them, but a couple of question arise.
Seems there are 2 folder: win32 and source, I guess "win32" is the place where are packages for windows and "source" is for linux packages... In "source" there isn't a folder named breakpad, I guess I have to download it, isn't?
If I'm right, I have to follow these instructions, https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad ...and then I have to configure building system to compile it, isn't?

[fluffyfreak]

@mike-f1 what OS do you develop on? I assume that it's a Linux distro yeah?

There's mulitple ways to do this I guess.

• move the breakpad stuff into pioneer under the contrib folder
• move the breakpad folder from win32/include/ into source
• create a separate breakpad folder in source (do not do this please)

Probably best to discuss this in IRC for a bit.

[fluffyfreak]

For now though, do whatever you feel like doing, it's quite easy to move the folders or to change the VS2015 project to work with the new layout later on.

[mike-f1]

yes, I have tried the second, but what I didn't realize is that breakpad files aren't from "master" of its project.

Next step is to copy-paste folders (as you suggest) and verify if they compile under Linux.
Then I probably will smash on other problems...

[mike-f1]

Ok, next problem: copy-paste don't works, because of lack of all autotools chain...

Due to my small knowledge I see only one way: I would put breakpad project files on
source/breakpad as an "external" library (as for Assimp), but it belongs from Google
Git, so I don't know how to do such a thing... @fluffyfreak , my doubts are on how
to do it in a reliable way, the code itself I don't think will be a great problem
(...or at least I hope it)...

What do you think I have to do?

[mike-f1]

ok, I did some steps, but I'm even stuck: I need a way to specify a base include dir ( -Ipath/to/include ) for
breakpad through all the autotools chain :-P

More: there's an "optional" thing I left to do on autotools: include breakpad in the list of Makefile as
for Miniz, Json and so on.

...Basically I'm at the beginning, but no problem: I pin these things here only for myself

[mike-f1]

@fluffyfreak and @impaktor : I made progress on this, but I'm not the best one to do "autotools stuffs" :/

On the link above I wrote some comments on what remain to do...

Let me know if you would me to proceed further or if you could finish it by yourself.