WIP Migrate from autotools to meson

For long-term maintainability and security.

Also removing non-liquid and non-TMC build options (not tested or
maintained).

Still to do: ensure it builds on Windows (cygwin/mingw/msys2?)
and add Windows builds in CI (github workflow)

.github/workflows/ccpp.yml

@@ -2,24 +2,107 @@ name: build
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [ master ]
+    branches: [ master, meson ]
   pull_request:
     branches: [ master ]
 
 jobs:
-  build:
-
+  ubuntu-build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-    - name: Install libraries
-      run: sudo apt-get install libsndfile1-dev libliquid-dev
-    - name: autoreconf
-      run: ./autogen.sh
-    - name: configure
-      run: ./configure
-    - name: make
-      run: make
-    - name: make check
-      run: make check
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Install dependencies (apt)
+      run: sudo apt install python3-pip ninja-build libsndfile1-dev libliquid-dev
+    - name: Install meson (pip3)
+      run: pip3 install --user meson
+    - name: meson setup
+      run: meson setup build
+    - name: compile
+      run: cd build && meson compile
+
+  macos-build:
+    runs-on: macos-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Install dependencies (brew)
+      run: brew install meson libsndfile liquid-dsp
+    - name: meson setup
+      run: meson setup build
+    - name: compile
+      run: cd build && meson compile
+
+  windows-msys2-mingw-build:
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: msys2/setup-msys2@v2
+      with:
+        update: true
+        install: >-
+          autoconf
+          automake
+          git
+          make
+          mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
+          mingw-w64-x86_64-libiconv
+          mingw-w64-x86_64-libsndfile
+          mingw-w64-x86_64-meson
+          mingw-w64-x86_64-python3
+    - name: Patch & build liquid-dsp
+      shell: msys2 {0}
+      run: |
+        git clone https://github.com/jgaeddert/liquid-dsp.git && cd liquid-dsp
+        perl -i -p -e 's/(AC_CHECK_LIB\(\[c\].+| sys\/resource.h)//g' configure.ac
+        ./bootstrap.sh && ./configure --prefix=/mingw64 && make
+        make install
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Build redsea
+      shell: msys2 {0}
+      run: |
+        meson setup build && cd build && meson compile
+    - name: Package into distrib
+      shell: msys2 {0}
+      run: |
+        mkdir -p distrib && cp build/redsea.exe distrib/
+        ldd build/redsea.exe | grep -iv windows | grep -iv system32 | grep -v :$ | cut -f2 -d\> | cut -f1 -d\( | awk '{$1=$1};1' | xargs -I{} cp {} distrib/
+
+  windows-cygwin-build:
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: cygwin/cygwin-install-action@v4
+      with:
+        packages: >-
+          autoconf
+          automake
+          bzip2
+          gcc-core
+          gcc-g++
+          git
+          libiconv-devel
+          libsndfile-devel
+          make
+          meson
+          patch
+          perl
+          tar
+          xz
+    - name: Build & patch liquid-dsp
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        git clone https://github.com/jgaeddert/liquid-dsp.git
+        cd liquid-dsp
+        ./bootstrap.sh
+        ./configure --prefix=/usr
+        make
+        make install
+        perl -i -p -e 's/(?<=\s)(_[A-Z])(?=[,\)])/\L\1__/g' /usr/include/liquid/liquid.h
+    - run: git config --global core.autocrlf input
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Build redsea
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        meson setup build && cd build && meson compile
+        make install

CHANGES.md

@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## HEAD
 
+* Migrate build system from autotools to meson (#90)
+* Add GitHub Workflows CI builds for macOS and Windows (MSYS2/MinGW + Cygwin)
+* Remove unmaintained build options for non-liquid, non-TMC builds
 * Add support for enhanced RadioText (eRT)
 * Add support for Long PS in Group 15A
 * Fix detection of invalid date/time (timestamps >2000 years ago)

README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ supports a large [subset of RDS features][Wiki: Features].
 [![release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/windytan/redsea.svg)](https://github.com/windytan/redsea/releases/latest)
 ![build](https://github.com/windytan/redsea/workflows/build/badge.svg)
 
-Decoded RDS groups are printed to the terminal as [line-delimited JSON][https://jsonlines.org/] objects
+Decoded RDS groups are printed to the terminal as [line-delimited JSON](https://jsonlines.org/) objects
 or, optionally, undecoded hex blocks (`-x`). Please refer to the wiki for
 [input data formats][Wiki: Input].
 
@@ -50,11 +50,12 @@ beginning.
 
 1. Install the prerequisites. On Ubuntu:
 
-        $ sudo apt install git build-essential autoconf libsndfile1-dev libliquid-dev
+        $ sudo apt install git ninja-build build-essential python3-pip libsndfile1-dev libliquid-dev
+        $ pip3 install --user meson
 
-Or on macOS (OSX) using Homebrew:
+Or on macOS using Homebrew:
 
-        $ brew install autoconf automake libsndfile liquid-dsp
+        $ brew install meson libsndfile liquid-dsp
         $ xcode-select --install
 
 2. Clone the repository (unless you downloaded a release zip file):
@@ -64,23 +65,12 @@ Or on macOS (OSX) using Homebrew:
 
 3. Compile redsea:
 
-        $ ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
-
-4. Install:
-
-        $ make install
+        $ meson setup build && cd build && meson compile
 
 How to later get the latest updates and recompile:
 
         $ git pull
-        $ ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make clean && make
-        $ make install
-
-For a slower machine it can take some time to compile the TMC support. This can
-be disabled (`./configure --disable-tmc`).
-
-If you only need to decode hex or binary input and don't need demodulation,
-you can compile redsea without liquid-dsp (`./configure --without-liquid`).
+        $ cd build && meson compile
 
 [liquid-dsp]: https://github.com/jgaeddert/liquid-dsp/releases/tag/v1.3.2
 
@@ -174,7 +164,7 @@ type:
 * For realtime decoding, a Raspberry Pi 1 or faster
 * ~8 MB of free memory (~128 MB for RDS-TMC)
 * C++14 compiler
-* GNU autotools
+* meson + ninja (for building)
 * libiconv 1.16
 * libsndfile 1.0.31
 * [liquid-dsp][liquid-dsp] release 1.3.2
@@ -185,7 +175,7 @@ type:
 
 ### Can't find liquid-dsp on macOS
 
-If you've installed [liquid-dsp][liquid-dsp] yet `configure` can't find it, it's
+If you've installed [liquid-dsp][liquid-dsp] yet meson can't find it, it's
 possible that XCode command line tools aren't installed. Run this command to fix
 it:
 

meson.build

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+project('redsea', 'cpp', default_options : ['cpp_std=c++14', 'warning_level=3', 'buildtype=release'],
+        version: '0.22-SNAPSHOT')
+
+# Store version number to be compiled in
+conf = configuration_data()
+conf.set_quoted('VERSION', meson.project_version())
+configure_file(output : 'config.h',
+               configuration : conf)
+
+### Compiler options ###
+
+cc = meson.get_compiler('cpp')
+add_project_arguments(cc.get_supported_arguments([
+    '-Wno-unknown-pragmas']), language: 'cpp')
+
+if get_option('buildtype') == 'release'
+  add_project_arguments('-O3', language : 'cpp')
+endif
+
+### Dependencies ###
+
+iconv = dependency('iconv')
+sndfile = dependency('sndfile')
+
+# Detecting liquid-dsp in a portable fashion
+if build_machine.system() == 'darwin'
+  fs = import('fs')
+  # Homebrew system
+  if fs.is_dir('/opt/homebrew/lib')
+    liquid_lib = cc.find_library('liquid',
+                 dirs : ['/opt/homebrew/lib'])
+    liquid_inc = include_directories('/opt/homebrew/include')
+  # MacPorts system
+  else
+    liquid_lib = cc.find_library('liquid',
+                 dirs : ['/opt/local/lib'])
+    liquid_inc = include_directories('/opt/local/include')
+  endif
+  liquid = declare_dependency(dependencies : liquid_lib,
+                              include_directories : liquid_inc)
+else
+  liquid = cc.find_library('liquid')
+endif
+
+# M_PI
+if build_machine.system() == 'windows'
+  add_project_arguments('-D_USE_MATH_DEFINES=1', language : 'cpp')
+endif
+
+sources = [
+  'ext/json/jsoncpp.cpp',
+  'src/block_sync.cc',
+  'src/channel.cc',
+  'src/common.cc',
+  'src/groups.cc',
+  'src/input.cc',
+  'src/liquid_wrappers.cc',
+  'src/options.cc',
+  'src/rdsstring.cc',
+  'src/redsea.cc',
+  'src/subcarrier.cc',
+  'src/tables.cc',
+  'src/tmc/tmc.cc',
+  'src/tmc/locationdb.cc',
+  'src/util.cc'
+]
+
+executable('redsea', sources, dependencies: [iconv, sndfile, liquid])

src/block_sync.h

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 #include <map>
 #include <vector>
 
-#include "config.h"
 #include "src/groups.h"
 #include "src/options.h"
 

src/channel.h

@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@
 #ifndef CHANNEL_H_
 #define CHANNEL_H_
 
-#include "config.h"
-
 #include "src/block_sync.h"
 #include "src/common.h"
 #include "src/options.h"