Our workflows and Dockerfiles now use Ninja on Linux & Mac, which
enables safe parallel builds. This significantly speeds up our
workflows.
GitHub Actions typical compilation times (build step only):
- Linux 19m => 9m
- macOS 23m => 8m
- Windows 12m => 10m
- Linux arm64 (self-hosted) 72m => 29m
- Docker build 25m => 14m
Overall workflow time: 84m => 33m
Compilation time on my workstation (12 CPUs @3.3GHz): 15m => 3m
This also adds a new environment variable "PACKAGER_LOW_MEMORY_BUILD".
If defined when CMake is first run, this will configure the build to
disable parallel linking to reduce memory usage. This helps us avoid
failures on our self-hosted arm64 machines, where 6 CPUs share 4GB of
RAM.
NOTE: Parallel builds are **NOT** recommended with Unix Makefiles due to
the use of excessive RAM during parallel linking. Unix Makefiles, unlike
Ninja, cannot be configured to restrict parallel linking during a
parallel build. Anecdotally, parallel builds with Makefiles have
exhausted a system with 32GB RAM. (My workstation.)
In a follow-up, I will update the build documentation to refer to CMake
and recommend all of the flags now used in our workflows.
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)
Using the latest depot_tools no longer works. depot_tools also wants
to auto-update itself, which must now be disabled.
We also need to disable the copy of python (vpython) included in
depot_tools, since for some distros, it has dependencies on system
libraries that no longer exist.
Finally, we need to force some distros to use python 2, because our
build system is ancient and needs to be ripped out and replaced some
day soon.
This fixes build issues in our CI, our Dockerfiles, and in general on
certain platforms or distros.
Closes#1023
The official, static-linked linux builds were crashing in their use of
getaddrinfo, which libcurl was configured to use. Both getaddrinfo
and all of its alternatives available in glibc fail with static
linking.
We can fix this by configuring libcurl to use libc-ares on Linux
instead. This allows us to keep the benefits of a statically-linked
Linux binary.
Closes#996
Change-Id: Ib4a9eb939813fd165727788726459ef4adf3fc4d
This updates the main Dockerfile and all the docker-based
distro-specific tests. The base OS versions have been updated to
versions that have not reached end-of-life status yet, and the list of
dependencies required has been updated and pruned.
Change-Id: Ibcff2f60e739fd5d999af100af76c40aa91a75bc
This brings our default build config more in line with what is
necessary for some platforms anyway: using the system-installed
toolchain and sysroot to build everything.
We will no longer fetch source or binaries for any specific build
tools, such as libc++, clang, gold, binutils, or valgrind.
The main part of this change is the changing of default gyp settings
in gyp_packager.py. For this, a bug in gyp_packager.py had to be
fixed, in which similar GYP_DEFINE key names (such as clang and
host_clang) would conflict, causing some defaults not to be installed
properly.
In order to enable clang=0 by default, some changes had to be made in
common.gypi:
- compiler macros added to fix a compatibility issue between
Chromium's base/mac/ folder and the actual OSX SDK
- replaced clang_warning_flags variables with standard cflags
settings, plus xcode_settings for OSX
- turned off warnings-as-errors for non-shaka code, rather than
allow-listing specific warning types, since we can't actually fix
those warnings on any platform
- disabled two specific warnings in shaka code, both of which are
caused by headers from our non-shaka dependencies
Also, one warning (missing "override" keyword) has been fixed in
vod_media_info_dump_muxer_listener.h.
Although these changes were done to make building simpler on a wider
array of platforms (arm64, for example), it seems to make the build a
bit faster, too. For me, at least, on my main Linux workstation:
- "gclient sync" now runs 20-30% faster
- "ninja -C out/Release" now runs 5-13% faster
The following environment variables are no longer required:
- DEPOT_TOOLS_WIN_TOOLCHAIN
- MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
Documentation, Dockerfiles, and GitHub Actions workflows have been
updated to reflect this.
The following GYP_DEFINES are no longer required for anyone:
- clang=0
- host_clang=0
- clang_xcode=1
- use_allocator=none
- use_experimental_allocator_shim=0
Documentation, Dockerfiles, and GitHub Actions workflows have been
updated to reflect this.
The following repos are no longer dependencies in gclient:
- binutils
- clang
- gold
- libc++
- libc++abi
- valgrind
The following gclient hooks have been removed:
- clang
- mac_toolchain
- sysroot
Change-Id: Ie94ccbeec722ab73c291cb7df897d20761a09a70
- Also fixed compilations in Alpine Linux and other flavors of Linux.
- Added container versions in docker files to always use a verified
version.
Closes#164.
Change-Id: I949a8709e4d70c49129c9c2e8608dd78193d964c
Joey Parrish
Joey Parrish
KongQun Yang