All of our executables need resources; e.g. the vector font is
a resource and it is necessary for generation. Before this commit,
the GUI executable loaded the resources in a nice way, and everything
else did it in a very ad-hoc, fragile way.
After this commit, all executables are placed in <build>/bin and
follow the same algorithm:
* On Windows, resources are compiled and linked into every
executable.
* On Linux, resources are copied into <build>/res (which is
tried first) and <prefix>/share/solvespace (which is tried
second).
* On macOS, resources are copied into <build>/res (which is
tried first) and <build>/bin/solvespace.app/Contents/Resources
(which is tried second).
In practice this means that we can add as many executables as we want
without duplicating lots of code. In addition, on macOS, we can
place supplementary executables into the bundle, and they can use
resources from the bundle transparently.
Before this commit, a translate group based on another translate
group would always use the "union" boolean operation, which does not
work at all if one wants an array with a difference operation, and
results in degraded performance if one wants an array with
an assemble operation.
This significantly improves performance e.g. in case of a sketch
containing a multitude of wooden panels, as the meshes can be
merely transformed instead of being joined.
We're using gcov+lcov, since these tools appear to be the only
usable ones that use the SC/CC metric; and measuring just the line
coverage would be practically criminal negligence.
gcov only works with GCC and Clang, and MSVC's own coverage
measurement tools are not up to the task; so MSVC is out of luck.
This commit alters the build system substantially; it adds another
platform, `headless`, that provides stubs in place of all GUI
functions, and provides a library `solvespace_headless` alongside
the main executable. To cut down build times, only the few files
that have #if defined(HEADLESS) are built twice for the executable
and the library; the rest is grouped into a new `solvespace_cad`
library. It is not usable on its own and just serves for grouping.
This commit also gates the tests behind a -DENABLE_TESTS=ON CMake
option, ON by default (but suggested as OFF in the README so that
people don't ever have to install cairo to build the executable.)
The tests introduced in this commit are (so far) rudimentary,
although functional, and they serve as a stepping point towards
introducing coverage analysis.
EvilSpirit
whitequark
Elvira Khabirova