This deprecates --vmodule (not available in absl, mapping it to --v for
a very minimal sort of compatibility) and adds the absl::log flags
--minloglevel, --stderrthreshold, --log_backtrace_at, and --log_prefix.
Reorder headers to follow the Google C++ Style Guide:
> In dir/foo.cc or dir/foo_test.cc:
>
> 1. dir2/foo2.h.
> 2. A blank line
> 3. C system headers (more precisely: headers in angle brackets with
the .h extension), e.g., <unistd.h>, <stdlib.h>.
> 4. A blank line
> 5. C++ standard library headers (without file extension), e.g.,
<algorithm>, <cstddef>.
> 6. A blank line
> 7. Other libraries' .h files.
> 8. A blank line
> 9. Your project's .h files.
https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Names_and_Order_of_Includes
This feeds into efforts to create a working install target.
The order of headers is still funky, and was "fixed" by clang-format,
but in a way that doesn't exactly align with the style guide. Further
cleanup of header order is coming in a follow-up PR.
All gtest-based tests should now use add_gtest. Results from these tests
will be surfaced more prominently in GitHub Actions. Before this, it was
hard to find test failures in the log.
There are a lot of changes in this first phase, because there was a
lot of infrastructure required to get some meaningful amount of
porting done. Future PRs should be simpler.
<b>Summary of changes:</b><details>
- Remove old deps:
- boringssl (replaced with mbedtls, lighter, easier to build)
- gflags (replaced with absl::flags)
- Chromium build tools
- New deps to replace parts of Chromium base:
- abseil-cpp
- glog
- nlohmann::json (for tests only)
- Submodules, updates, and CMake build rules for third-party
libraries:
- curl
- gmock/gtest
- Ported internal libraries and their tests by removing Chromium deps
and adding CMake build rules:
- file (now using C++17 filesystem APIs)
- license_notice
- status
- version
- Test improvements
- Removed file tests that can never be re-enabled
- Re-enabled all other disabled file tests
- Debug JSON values when HTTP tests fail
- Fixed chunked-encoding issues in HTTP tests
- Updated and refactored Dockerfiles testing
- All docker files working, with OS versions updated to meet the
new tool requirements
- Local docker builds no longer write files to your working
directory as root
- Local docker builds can now be run in parallel without clobbering
each others' build outputs
- DEBUG=1 can drop you into an interactive shell when a docker
build fails
- Updated and heavily refactored workflows and Dockerfiles
- All docker files now tested in parallel on GitHub, speeding up CI
- All common workflow components broken out and using workflow_call
instead of custom actions
- Self-hosted runners now optional, to make testing easier on forks
- CMake porting works-in-process can now be fully tested on GitHub
- Building ported libraries and passing ported tests on all three
platforms!
- CI hacks for macOS removed, now testing on macos-latest!
- Python2 no longer required! (Only Python3)
- Using strict build flags, treating all warnings as errors.
</details>
<b>Required to build:</b>
- CMake >= 3.16
- Python 3
- A compiler supporting C++ >= 17
- g++ >= 9 if using GCC (Clang also fine)
- MSVC for Windows
<b>Still needs work:</b><details>
- Moving other dependencies into submodules (if we keep them):
- apple_apsl
- icu
- libevent
- libpng
- libwebm
- libxml
- modp_b64
- protobuf
- zlib
- Port remaining internal libraries:
- app
- hls
- media/base
- media/chunking
- media/codecs
- media/crypto
- media/demuxer
- media/event
- media/formats/dvb
- media/formats/mp2t
- media/formats/mp4
- media/formats/packed_audio
- media/formats/ttml
- media/formats/webm
- media/formats/webvtt
- media/formats/wvm
- media/origin
- media/public
- media/replicator
- media/trick_play
- mpd
- Port main application
- Add logging flags in absl and connect them to glog (which expects
gflags)
- Port pssh-box.py
- Port main test targets (packager_test.py and packager_app.py)
- Updating all requirement and build documentation
- Remove any remaining refs to gclient, depot_tools, ninja
- Update and complete release workflows using release-please
</details>
Issue #346 (Switch to abseil)
Issue #1047 (New build system)
Joey Parrish
Cosmin Stejerean