CentOS 8 is EOL, and the official docker images will not be updated. See
https://www.centos.org/centos-linux-eol/
This switches to the latest release (CentOS 9 Stream). Since CentOS no
longer provides official images, this uses a third-party image provider
(https://hub.docker.com/u/tgagor)
This change also exposed a warning in absl that needed to be silenced in
the default version of GCC in CentOS 9 Stream (GCC 11.4).
- Update protobuf to v23.4, to fix the cstdint error on Arch Linux, and
make some related changes:
- Silence additional compiler warnings for the new protobuf
- Update absl to 20230125.3, to support the protobuf update, and make
some related changes:
- Silence additional compiler warnings for the new protobuf
- Replace GOOGLE_CHECK_OK with ABSL_CHECK_OK
- Replace GUARDED_BY with ABSL_GUARDED_BY
- Update other instances of cstdint missing in our own code
- Always pull the latest docker images, to avoid stale results when your
workstation has pulled an older image at the same label
This also normalizes the structure of all submodule folders so that
there is a clear place to put configurations, outside the submodule
source, but limited in scope to that folder.
Issue #1047 (New build system)
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