Everything about build-systems
I was a bit anxious about running our poppler meson build in CI, because it's the real test, you know? "Works on my machine" only goes so far, things have a tendency to break once you try to make them reproducible.
It took a hot minute.
Try several weeks.
Well, yeah. I got to contribute to a bunch of open-source projects in the meantime though, so I'm fairly pleased with it!
- libffi (for static linking)
- cairo (more static linking!)
- proxy-libintl (more static linking!)
- expat (static linking strikes again)
- poppler (for file descriptor stuff not properly gated on Windows, closed in favor of a similar MR)
- glib (work in progress, involves thread-local storage and dynamic linker/loader cursedness)
I know what you're thinking: haven't we strayed from the whole "content pipeline" theme in this series?
Well... fair. But compiling and distributing software is part of software engineering, and unless you're in specific circles, I see that taught a lot less than the "just write code and stuff happens" part.
So! Now our asset processing pipeline is almost complete. But we've just traded dependencies against CLI tools, for dependencies against dynamic libraries:
$ ldd ./target/debug/pdftocairo linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd615be000) libpoppler-glib.so.8 => /lib64/libpoppler-glib.so.8 (0x00007f2ba1bb4000) libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f2ba1b59000) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f2ba1a1e000) libcairo.so.2 => /lib64/libcairo.so.2 (0x00007f2ba1902000) libcairo-gobject.so.2 => /lib64/libcairo-gobject.so.2 (0x00007f2ba18f6000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f2ba18dc000) libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f2ba17fe000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f2ba15f4000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f2ba216c000) libpoppler.so.112 => /lib64/libpoppler.so.112 (0x00007f2ba1288000) libfreetype.so.6 => /lib64/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f2ba11bd000) libgio-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f2ba0fe4000) libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f2ba0dc5000) libffi.so.6 => /lib64/libffi.so.6 (0x00007f2ba0db8000) libpcre.so.1 => /lib64/libpcre.so.1 (0x00007f2ba0d40000) libpixman-1.so.0 => /lib64/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x00007f2ba0c94000) libfontconfig.so.1 => /lib64/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007f2ba0c45000) libpng16.so.16 => /lib64/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007f2ba0c0c000) libxcb-shm.so.0 => /lib64/libxcb-shm.so.0 (0x00007f2ba0c07000) libxcb.so.1 => /lib64/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f2ba0bda000) libxcb-render.so.0 => /lib64/libxcb-render.so.0 (0x00007f2ba0bca000) libXrender.so.1 => /lib64/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007f2ba0bbd000) libX11.so.6 => /lib64/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f2ba0a75000) libXext.so.6 => /lib64/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f2ba0a60000) libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f2ba0a46000) libjpeg.so.62 => /lib64/libjpeg.so.62 (0x00007f2ba09c2000) libopenjp2.so.7 => /lib64/libopenjp2.so.7 (0x00007f2ba0968000) liblcms2.so.2 => /lib64/liblcms2.so.2 (0x00007f2ba0903000) libtiff.so.5 => /lib64/libtiff.so.5 (0x00007f2ba087c000) libsmime3.so => /lib64/libsmime3.so (0x00007f2ba0850000) libnss3.so => /lib64/libnss3.so (0x00007f2ba0712000) libplc4.so => /lib64/libplc4.so (0x00007f2ba0709000) libnspr4.so => /lib64/libnspr4.so (0x00007f2ba06c6000) libbz2.so.1 => /lib64/libbz2.so.1 (0x00007f2ba06b3000) libharfbuzz.so.0 => /lib64/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x00007f2ba05dd000) libbrotlidec.so.1 => /lib64/libbrotlidec.so.1 (0x00007f2ba05cf000) libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f2ba05c8000) libmount.so.1 => /lib64/libmount.so.1 (0x00007f2ba0581000) libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x00007f2ba0556000) libxml2.so.2 => /lib64/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007f2ba03cd000) libXau.so.6 => /lib64/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f2ba03c7000) libwebp.so.7 => /lib64/libwebp.so.7 (0x00007f2ba0358000) libzstd.so.1 => /lib64/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f2ba0260000) libjbig.so.2.1 => /lib64/libjbig.so.2.1 (0x00007f2ba0252000) libnssutil3.so => /lib64/libnssutil3.so (0x00007f2ba021f000) libplds4.so => /lib64/libplds4.so (0x00007f2ba021a000) libgraphite2.so.3 => /lib64/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x00007f2ba01f9000) libbrotlicommon.so.1 => /lib64/libbrotlicommon.so.1 (0x00007f2ba01d4000) libblkid.so.1 => /lib64/libblkid.so.1 (0x00007f2ba019c000) libpcre2-8.so.0 => /lib64/libpcre2-8.so.0 (0x00007f2ba0105000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib64/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f2ba00d9000)