8469 2015-10-09 10:00:55 +0000 Add gobject-introspection support directly to oe-core 2016-03-16 13:04:34 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core 2.1 x86 Multiple RESOLVED FIXED Medium+ enhancement 2.1 M4 8640 1 alex.kanavin alex.kanavin alexandru.c.georgescu meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher randy.macleod daniel.alexandrux.istrate --- --- Yes (doc changes required) oldest_to_newest 55100 0 alex.kanavin 2015-10-09 10:00:55 +0000 The work would be based on meta-gir, but with the mandatory goal of producing patches of sufficient quality that can be sent upstream. The upstream tarball is a mess that mashes together several different things and was never designed for cross-compiling; and meta-gir is also difficult to understand: autotools-based build files are patched using undocumented patchfiles, then again patched from the recipe using sed, with sparse or absent comments - all that needs to be sorted. I'm looking into this now, but don't yet have anything to show. 55398 1 randy.macleod 2015-10-16 15:14:23 +0000 Please check with upstream before putting much work into meta-gir. There seems to be an effort in place to fix gobject-introspection for cross-compile environment using the mesonbuild tool: https://blogs.gnome.org/ignatenko/2015/07/24/guadec-presentation-preview-compiling-gnome-apps-with-the-meson-build-system/ Someone needs to determine if this is actually going to happen and if it solves our x-compile problems. 55410 2 alex.kanavin 2015-10-17 05:11:18 +0000 This is the upstream discussion: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743280 What I take from it, it's not happening soon, and they're not replacing autotools with it in existing projects. In any case, I don't see how mesonbuild would fix g-o in cross-compile environments. The link you provide says nothing about that specifically. The issue with g-o isn't the build system, it's the g-o tools themselves that need to be compiled both for native and target architectures, and then require a delicate combination of both to produce correct output. 55412 3 randy.macleod 2015-10-17 15:04:54 +0000 Oh well, the impression I had was that the next version of gnome might switch to mesonbuild and that mesonbuild would help with x-compile of the poorly designed g-object-introspection code. If that's not the case then I agree with proceed with your plan. Thanks for taking the time to investigate and reply. 55413 4 alex.kanavin 2015-10-17 16:29:40 +0000 No problem. I'm in the middle of making it all work, and hope to produce an initial patchset for testing and review in 5-10 working days. 56326 5 alex.kanavin 2015-11-09 15:15:26 +0000 Posted the initial patchset here http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-November/112455.html 60009 6 alex.kanavin 2016-03-16 13:04:34 +0000 Patches are in master!