[PATCH] meson.build: Always require an objc compiler on macos hosts

[PATCH] meson.build: Always require an objc compiler on macos hosts

[Peter Maydell]

We currently only insist that an ObjectiveC compiler is present on
macos hosts if we're building the Cocoa UI.  However, since then
we've added some other parts of QEMU which are also written in ObjC:
the coreaudio audio backend, and the vmnet net backend.  This means
that if you try to configure QEMU on macos with --disable-cocoa the
build will fail:

../meson.build:3741:13: ERROR: No host machine compiler for 'audio/coreaudio.m'

Since in practice any macos host will have an ObjC compiler
available, rather than trying to gate the compiler detection on an
increasingly complicated list of every bit of QEMU that uses ObjC,
just require it unconditionally on macos hosts.

Resolves https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2138
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
---
Per the commit message, in theory we could allow a no-objc
build and disable coreaudio, vmnet, etc. But I didn't really see
a reason why that would be useful, and it's bound to keep
breaking unless we actively defend it in CI. So I preferred
to simply require ObjC on macos.

 meson.build | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index f9dbe7634e5..e3fab8ce9ff 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ if host_os == 'windows' and add_languages('cpp', required: false, native: false)
   cxx = meson.get_compiler('cpp')
 endif
 if host_os == 'darwin' and \
-   add_languages('objc', required: get_option('cocoa'), native: false)
+   add_languages('objc', required: true, native: false)
   all_languages += ['objc']
   objc = meson.get_compiler('objc')
 endif
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [PATCH] meson.build: Always require an objc compiler on macos hosts

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 01:33:34PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> We currently only insist that an ObjectiveC compiler is present on
> macos hosts if we're building the Cocoa UI.  However, since then
> we've added some other parts of QEMU which are also written in ObjC:
> the coreaudio audio backend, and the vmnet net backend.  This means
> that if you try to configure QEMU on macos with --disable-cocoa the
> build will fail:
> 
> ../meson.build:3741:13: ERROR: No host machine compiler for 'audio/coreaudio.m'
> 
> Since in practice any macos host will have an ObjC compiler
> available, rather than trying to gate the compiler detection on an
> increasingly complicated list of every bit of QEMU that uses ObjC,
> just require it unconditionally on macos hosts.
> 
> Resolves https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2138
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> Per the commit message, in theory we could allow a no-objc
> build and disable coreaudio, vmnet, etc. But I didn't really see
> a reason why that would be useful, and it's bound to keep
> breaking unless we actively defend it in CI. So I preferred
> to simply require ObjC on macos.

Yeah, I think simplicity wins here, unless someone can provide
a compelling reason why they absolutely must be able to build
without objc being present, even if it were unused.

>  meson.build | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


> 
> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index f9dbe7634e5..e3fab8ce9ff 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ if host_os == 'windows' and add_languages('cpp', required: false, native: false)
>    cxx = meson.get_compiler('cpp')
>  endif
>  if host_os == 'darwin' and \
> -   add_languages('objc', required: get_option('cocoa'), native: false)
> +   add_languages('objc', required: true, native: false)
>    all_languages += ['objc']
>    objc = meson.get_compiler('objc')
>  endif
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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Re: [PATCH] meson.build: Always require an objc compiler on macos hosts

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 11/3/24 14:33, Peter Maydell wrote:
> We currently only insist that an ObjectiveC compiler is present on
> macos hosts if we're building the Cocoa UI.  However, since then
> we've added some other parts of QEMU which are also written in ObjC:
> the coreaudio audio backend, and the vmnet net backend.  This means
> that if you try to configure QEMU on macos with --disable-cocoa the
> build will fail:
> 
> ../meson.build:3741:13: ERROR: No host machine compiler for 'audio/coreaudio.m'
> 
> Since in practice any macos host will have an ObjC compiler
> available, rather than trying to gate the compiler detection on an
> increasingly complicated list of every bit of QEMU that uses ObjC,
> just require it unconditionally on macos hosts.
> 
> Resolves https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2138
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> Per the commit message, in theory we could allow a no-objc
> build and disable coreaudio, vmnet, etc. But I didn't really see
> a reason why that would be useful, and it's bound to keep
> breaking unless we actively defend it in CI. So I preferred
> to simply require ObjC on macos.
> 
>   meson.build | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>

Re: [PATCH] meson.build: Always require an objc compiler on macos hosts

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 11/3/24 14:33, Peter Maydell wrote:
> We currently only insist that an ObjectiveC compiler is present on
> macos hosts if we're building the Cocoa UI.  However, since then
> we've added some other parts of QEMU which are also written in ObjC:
> the coreaudio audio backend, and the vmnet net backend.  This means
> that if you try to configure QEMU on macos with --disable-cocoa the
> build will fail:
> 
> ../meson.build:3741:13: ERROR: No host machine compiler for 'audio/coreaudio.m'
> 
> Since in practice any macos host will have an ObjC compiler
> available, rather than trying to gate the compiler detection on an
> increasingly complicated list of every bit of QEMU that uses ObjC,
> just require it unconditionally on macos hosts.
> 
> Resolves https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2138
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> Per the commit message, in theory we could allow a no-objc
> build and disable coreaudio, vmnet, etc. But I didn't really see
> a reason why that would be useful, and it's bound to keep
> breaking unless we actively defend it in CI. So I preferred
> to simply require ObjC on macos.
> 
>   meson.build | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Queued, thanks.