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[dimitre]

I'll be loggin progress here.

[dimitre]

my first test of donwloading all zip files for macos at once, using wget2
I live in a rural area, my internet is 25mbps, so the limit is 3.125, so I can say all parallel downloads saturated the entire bandwidth

 [Files: 18  Bytes: 37.64M [3.10MB/s] Redirects: 18  Todo: 0  Errors: 2                                               ]

I'll be using a modificated version of this script to build OpenSSL/Curl for macOS
https://github.com/jasonacox/Build-OpenSSL-cURL

And there is also Cairo library missing, so all core libs / addons are solved.

[dimitre]

Now I have Cairo building ok for macOS, latest version with meson build.
next step is build using github actions CI.

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OK Cairo (macOS) building in CI. Now it is only adjusting folders, making a zip file and push to the release

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Cairo 100% working. all libraries are building ok locally. 90% of them great on CI

[dimitre]

today I pushed updates in OF project fork/branch to adjust again to simple .a libraries instead of xcframework.
here: https://github.com/dimitre/openframeworks/tree/fork2

it is much simpler to be back with simple libraries. xcframeworks will be great to join ios / iosSimulator libs in one. they cannot be a fat lib because sometimes architecture is the same (one iphone can be arm and a mac can be arm too), so xcframeworks come to the rescue.
Even then it will be great to have only ios/iossim in an individual library, without tvOS, watchOS etcOS (sdks are heavy and free disk space is great)

[dimitre]

curl / openssl building on CI
I've just tested now building a universal app (intel / arm) and it built well

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all libs ok except svgtiny, which is old and hard and we have a better than ofxSvg addon.

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Libpng updated to v1.6.46

[dimitre]

Recently everything working on Linux and RPI.
now Chalet builds meson projects (like Cairo)
And Chalet now handles CMAKE install, so there is no need anymore for scripts to adjust the output file paths, this can be done all in CMAKE configurations.
This solves the package more globally so adding platforms is easier. most of the time it works out of the box.

[dimitre]

FreeImage

Freeimage lately fails with macos-latest runner, so I'm trying to build separately some dependencies like libtiff.
libjpeg was hardcoded inside Dan repository, so I'm trying to split and build libjpeg from scratch
but here are some errors building universal for macos

  libjpeg-turbo contains assembly code, so it cannot be built with multiple
  values in CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES.

we can build arm only or x86 only, not both.
I did a local experiment and by removing some lines from CMakeLists (109-115) I was able to compile the libjpeg-turbo universal.

[dimitre]

Today I finally completed two libraries for RPI that uses multistrap : glew and rtAudio.
They are untested but building ok.
Todo:

• remove multistrap step for other libraries
• add cross compile msys2 step for all

[dimitre]

today advancing with Cairo ( a very complex one ) for all platforms
it fails on cross compiling for RPI because of pixman dependency and -mmmx parameter.
one possibiliy is making a PR in Pixman repo, auto detecting x86 chip family

if host_machine.cpu_family() == 'x86' or host_machine.cpu_family() == 'x86_64'
    add_project_arguments('-mmmx', language : 'c')
endif

[dimitre]

I'm now working on FreeImage, trying to untangle dependencies so we have latest libtiff.
other ideas is using libjpeg-turbo instead of libjpeg, and zlib-ng instead of zlib (both with compatible api)

other thing I'm looking at is using mango as an alternative to FreeImage. it seems modern and heavily optimized.
it is building static for macos / linux. failing on vs. Not meant to be used as static there. Yet

[dimitre]

mango is replacing FreeImage now
freetype was updated to remove brotli and libpng dependencies, they were removed from runners and libs.sh install script.