windows: Detect Strawberry Perl and error out early

This is going to fail during the compile phase because Strawberry Perl
ships with its own pkg-config and pkgconfig files for zlib/libffi with
unusable values.

Fixes https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-build/-/issues/41

Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-build/-/merge_requests/197>
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Nirbheek Chauhan 2020-10-01 23:05:34 +05:30
parent fa9627eb75
commit debe544d3f

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@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ if cmdres.returncode() != 0
error('Do not run `ninja` or `meson` for gst-build inside the uninstalled environment, you will run into problems')
endif
# Ensure that the user does not have Strawberry Perl in PATH, since it ships
# with a pkg-config.bat and broken pkgconfig files for libffi and zlib. Will
# cause a build error, such as in
# https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-build/-/issues/41
ensure_no_strawberry_perl = '''
import os
assert(r'Strawberry\perl\bin' not in os.environ['PATH'])
'''
if build_system == 'windows'
cmdres = run_command(python3, '-c', ensure_no_strawberry_perl)
if cmdres.returncode() != 0
error('You have Strawberry Perl in PATH which is known to cause build issues with gst-build. Please remove it from PATH or uninstall it.')
endif
endif
documented_projects = ''
# Make it possible to use msys2 built zlib which fails
# when not using the mingw toolchain as it uses unistd.h