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Vincent Ambo
25393d8080 refactor(3p/nix): Introduce CMake as the build system for Nix
Completes the switch from Meson to CMake for the core build system in
Nix.

Meson was added originally because someone else had already done the
work for integrating it in Nix and it was an upgrade from the previous
setup.

However over time it became clear that Meson is not quite mature
enough for projects like Nix that have occasionally peculiar
configuration constraints.

Some issues encountered with Meson (some of these are due to the Meson
setup in Nix):

* Difficulty with generating correct compile_commands.json for
  external tools like clangd
* Difficulty linking to libc++ when using clang
* Ugly shell invocations for certain parts of the build system (I want
  these to be gone!!!)

This CMake setup mimics the Meson configuration, but there are some
differences (some temporary):

* headers are now included separately for each library (see a previous
  commit that changes includes appropriately)
* autoheaders-style configuration is currently hardcoded. Before
  blindly copying this I want to evaluate how much of it actually exists
  for portability concerns that I don't have (such as support for OS
  X).
* Nix is built with libc++ by default.
* [libstore] SQL schema is now inlined via a generated header, not an
  included string literal

Abseil is still built as part of this build, rather than an external
dependency, because it chokes on differently configured compiler
invocations.

Note that because of the move to libc++ an unwanted behaviour is
introduced: glog log messages no longer have a body. I have yet to
debug what is going on there.
2020-05-28 00:11:25 +01:00
p01arst0rm
055139ac6a feat(3p/nix): added meson support
(cherry picked from commit 086a81b7a5bbe1fc022efb5935ff68f6ad71ddaf)
2020-05-17 15:55:13 +01:00
Vincent Ambo
7994fd1d54 Add 'third_party/nix/' from commit 'be66c7a6b24e3c3c6157fd37b86c7203d14acf10'
git-subtree-dir: third_party/nix
git-subtree-mainline: cf8cd640c1
git-subtree-split: be66c7a6b24e3c3c6157fd37b86c7203d14acf10
2020-05-17 15:52:38 +01:00