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| author | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com> | 2020-10-01 23:05:34 +0530 |
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| committer | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com> | 2020-10-01 23:11:24 +0530 |
| commit | debe544d3f5a80954c949af9580ba1df94f91e49 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e741a08125b91b3fef6c694b438136fe95a44dc | |
| parent | fa9627eb75c3904c53b81e06f6e0d2034a4a2d98 (diff) | |
windows: Detect Strawberry Perl and error out early
This is going to fail during the compile phase because Strawberry Perl
ships with its own pkg-config and pkgconfig files for zlib/libffi with
unusable values.
Fixes https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-build/-/issues/41
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-build/-/merge_requests/197>
| -rw-r--r-- | meson.build | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index d4cf73a..aec7d52 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ if cmdres.returncode() != 0 error('Do not run `ninja` or `meson` for gst-build inside the uninstalled environment, you will run into problems') endif +# Ensure that the user does not have Strawberry Perl in PATH, since it ships +# with a pkg-config.bat and broken pkgconfig files for libffi and zlib. Will +# cause a build error, such as in +# https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-build/-/issues/41 +ensure_no_strawberry_perl = ''' +import os +assert(r'Strawberry\perl\bin' not in os.environ['PATH']) +''' +if build_system == 'windows' + cmdres = run_command(python3, '-c', ensure_no_strawberry_perl) + if cmdres.returncode() != 0 + error('You have Strawberry Perl in PATH which is known to cause build issues with gst-build. Please remove it from PATH or uninstall it.') + endif +endif + documented_projects = '' # Make it possible to use msys2 built zlib which fails # when not using the mingw toolchain as it uses unistd.h |