base_deps_meta_version was bumped so that the base dependencies archives for CI
workflows are recreated (we need only the Windows flavours of the
archives updated but such surgical intervention is not supported).
The target_platform option has always be wrongly named.
This is not the platform we are targeted but how we compile.
This was ok at beginning as specifying how we compile somehow define
for what we compile but this is not a one to one mapping.
It mainly allow to run command in directory containing space.
(Hello, `C:\Program Files\...`)
It would also allow to work on directory containning spaces
(`C:\Users\John Doe`) but xapian configure (at least) expressly doesn't
support it :/
- Run the command without shell=True
- The command must be a list instead of a string.
- All options must also be a list (or an iterable).
We were assuming that meson project correspond to our projects and so we
were always building them, even if they were already compiled.
(This way, a simple `kiwix-build` is enough to recompile the WIP code of
our project).
However, on the CI, we do not archive the source code/build directory in
the base deps archive. So when we try to compile, the compile step of
meson projects fails because the source are not here.
We have a small workaround for pugixml but as zstd is also meson, it is
time to do something correct.
By default, all projects now try to skip if a build is already present.
Our projects are marked as `force_build` and so, they do not try to skip.
This will build all Make, CMake, QMake dependency being build with -O3.
So all our dependencies will be build with -O3.
Our project (meson) are already build in release when needed.
kiwix-desktop should be build optimized in case of release but we need
to handle it correctly. At least not build in O3 per default as it may
break debug.
- Dependency are installed "striped".
- Our project are build "debugoptimized" by default and "release" when
building release instead of "debug"
We need to update the `base_deps_meta_version` as we are changing how
dependencies are compiled.
kiwix-desktop needs the aria2 binary to download content.
kiwix-desktop will use aria2 throw lib-kiwix so it is somehow a kiwix-lib
dependency, but it is used only by kiwix-desktop.
And we know to install it only on platforms where we are supporting
kiwix-destkop.
Adam Lamar
Veloman Yunkan
Matthieu Gautier