Funny/sad that this possibility took me so long to realize. Until now it
was "you can have command-line utilities or static plugins but never
both", and only with CMake 3.13+ it was possible to link static plugins
to these executables from outside. Now it's a builtin and supported
option.
For some reason, it was adding also the magnum / magnum-d directory,
which isn't really useful, especially in cases where the directory is
not at all or it's desired to pick a debug plugin from a release
executable and vice versa.
Also the distancefieldconverter was still attempting to join with an
absolute path -- somehow 7fb63a9434 missed
this one.
I really need to write regression tests for all this, sigh.
These two options were mutually exclusive, and both were doing the same
thing -- switching to EGL on desktop GL, or switching away from EGL on
GLES. That made all logic vastly more complicated than it should be, and
unfortunately it took me half a decade to realize that. The new logic is
significantly simpler everywhere.
As usual, the old options are still recognized by CMake on a deprecated
build (with a warning), and are still exposed both as CMake variables
and a preprocessor define. But the logic for them was quite complicated,
so I don't guarantee all cases are covered.
I also tried to clean up the dependent CMake options to allow building
GLX and WGL apps on GLES independently of whether EGL is used, but it's
quite a mess due to the limitations of CMake < 3.22. Build directories
that have the options switched randomly over a long time might start
misbehaving, but the initial build should work well.
The whole class was a bad idea, why create something that's 99% similar
to another application and has just one platform-specific workaround? Of
course it resulted in this code being completely untested and not even
built anywhere, because it served a tiny insignificant use case.
To avoid losing all the code, I did my best in attempting to merge this
into the WindowlessEglApplication. But since, again, EGL isn't
really used on any Windows platform, I can't even say it builds
properly. Maybe not even the original code built.
This is what commit ca722eac6e should
have been.
Sorry for breaking a non-deprecated MSVC build once again. The reason it
"appeared to work" for me was that on deprecated builds, Manager.h
includes Manager.hpp for backwards compatibility. On non-deprecated it
doesn't and MSVC ends up dying on a linker error. But the problem was
not related to extern templates, the problem was that there was a
compiler-specific ifdef in the cpp file which exported the class for all
compilers but MSVC, somehow. And so when I removed extern template from
the header, it still worked everywhere, except MSVC and except a
non-deprecated build.
Similar to the change done in Corrade, see the commit for details:
878624ac36
Wow, this is probably the most backwards-compatibility code I've ever
written. Can't wait until I can drop all that.
The boring dry usage info grew significantly, and listing it as the
first thing on the page would scare people off. Put the examples first
instead, and for the imageconverter and sceneconverter add --info
listing examples, as that's what is eye-catchy.
Originally I copied this over from SceneGraph template classes, where it
was used to prevent the compiler from needlessly instantiating a
template that was already available elsewhere. But this is a different
case, the extern template is not preventing any instatiation of
anything, no code is inline, so it apparently should not have been there
at all, instead of being disabled for ḾinGW GCC and clang-cl, and then
subsequently discovering it also breaks MinGW Clang.
Since I'm not testing with MinGW Clang on the CI (only with MinGW GCC),
this went unnoticed for a while -- sorry.
It's more useful if the Error class is directly referenced than saying
just "error output" -- so people can grab it, redirect it, etc. Also
drop the useless "does what it is expected to do on success" sentences
that add no value whatsoever.
It limits the support for CMake 3.12+, but it's much less verbose and I
don't expect people to use ancient CMake versions with IDEs like Xcode
or VS anyway, so this should be fine.
I wanted to avoid including extra stuff with the Manager.hpp split, but
this would make it even worse than having Array and String included
unconditionally. Fortunately it's enough to simply not even have the
declaration.
Like in Trade, the unatomic exists() + read() pair (and silent failures
if the file exists but can't be read) was replaced with just
Path::read() that now returns an Optional. Besides that, not much worth
mentioning.
Probably a leftover from when these dependencies were handled in a
much shittier way? For as long as I remember, enabling WITH_GL_INFO
always enabled WITH_GL and WITH_WINDOWLESSWHATEVERAPPLICATION
implicitly.
This makes it much less annoying to pass arbitrarily typed data, such as
std::uint8_t or char8_t and what not. It was already done like this for
the new shader converter plugins, where the input is often 32-bit ints
for SPIR-V.
OTOH the internal virtual API is kept with ArrayView<const char>, as
that makes it easier to operate on by the implementations.
Disabling engine startup log or modifying enabled extensions /
workarounds from the application side was one of the common pain
points and this should *finally* solve the problem. This Configuration
is now inherited by the usual Platform::*Application::GLConfiguration /
Platform::Windowless*Application::Configuration classes people are used
to, so for the end user it's just as if these classes got a bunch new
options.
Having this, I also extended the ContextGLTest to verify that the
Configuration and command-line options do what's expected because that
hadn't automated tests until now. The test is mostly a copy of what I
did for Vulkan already, nothing special. Additionally all
Platform*ApplicationTest executables gained a new --quiet option to
verify that the GL::Context::Configuration subset gets correctly passed
from the Application code, because that's something we can't really
verify in an automated way.
And clean up the noise from there. This is some very old code, so the
coverage was rather poor, including two uncaught bugs causing
test failures. Fixing that in the next commit.
Vladimír Vondruš