[Nut-upsdev] NUT on Windows revival
Ted Mittelstaedt
tedm at mittelstaedt.us
Fri Jun 24 06:47:14 BST 2022
Am I correct in assuming this is all Win32 code still?
Ted
On 6/23/2022 2:52 PM, Jim Klimov via Nut-upsdev wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After a hectic month in private life, as a byproduct I've got a
> viable merger of last released NUT 2.6.5 based Windows-ready codebase
> (thanks to the giants active a dozen years ago, on whose shoulders I
> stood today) and modern 2.8.x/master, fixing the merge conflicts and
> build warnings. Some details were tracked in discussion of
> https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/5
>
> There are caveats, e.g. in a few files code was just hidden by
> `#ifndef WIN32` so making it "appear" would be a future trick, and
> some "silly" fallbacks for missing methods were hacked to make it
> build but probably are not thread-safe etc... but at least binaries do
> appear and some do run without crashing on Windows - e.g. usbhid-ups
> and nut-scanner did see my test UPS. Fixes originally made for
> libusb-0.1 were applied to libusb1.c too, but not tried yet.
>
> Builds are possible, mostly scripted and documented, see:
>
> * `docs/config-prereq.txt` and `ci_build.sh` for MSYS2 (includes
> MinGW) natively on Windows,
> * `scripts/Windows/README` and a build script nearby for using mingw
> cross-building packages on Ubuntu Linux.
>
> Both of these produce lots of standalone usable binaries installable
> as a typical NUT directory tree, which (with copies of DLLs for
> third-party projects) "just work".
>
> The adventure starts with:
>
> |:; git clone -b Windows-v2.8.0-1
> https://github.com/networkupstools/nut nut-win |
> I really hope that the community members more interested and better
> versed in the platform can pick it up from here, to discover and fix
> the missing and flawed bits, make sense of the installer, etc. and
> eventually make this codebase part of common NUT, multi-platform as it is.
>
> Sone points of interest OTOH:
> * c++ and a few drivers are currently effectively "neutered"
> * fcntl() code to avoid FD leaks to forked children, is it doable on
> Windows?
> * loading dlls from one dir, without copies near every exe (see common.c)
> * automatically tracking major version number X (from
> client/Makefile.am) for LTDL discovery of libupsclient-X.dll without
> hardcoding it
> * localtime_r, gmtime_r use ugly fallbacks where unavoidable
> * usb close_dev() crashes
> * not all dependencies were tried, probably more build warnings are
> lurking to clean up
> * installer not investigated
> * code mostly looks at "WIN32" macro as a big switch; there should be
> more specific configure-script tests for different versions, toolkits,
> build envs, IDEs... that are possible. Supported or not, WIN XP may
> still be a big thing...
> * clean up what `make install` does (e.g. no systemd/SMF on win)
> * automate copying third-party dlls for `make install DESTDIR=...`
> (recursive ldd?)
> * make sure that Linux/Mac/Solaris/BSD/... builds from this branch are
> not broken by that big code merge.
>
> On my side, curiosity is satisfied, itch scratched and bogus
> achievement achieved, so I plan to rest and then do other things.
> Really looking forward to you the reader to make the next iterations.
>
> When this codebase gets "good enough" to at least not fail to build
> against more and more third-party projects, I'll look at covering this
> in NUT CI so it does not regress with future evolution. This milestone
> is actually already viable now, just I'm leaving for vacation :-)
>
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