Nirbheek Chauhan

Add a way to convert glib::Value to Result<glib::SendValue, Self> generically

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`glib::Value::try_into_send_value()` requires a `T: Send + StaticType`, which means you need to specify the type statically to use it. However, it is a fairly common operation to get a `glib::Value`...

Fix pkgconfig files on windows

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``` build: Fix libdir in pkgconfig files for Windows Windows import libraries are installed inside ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY, not LIBRARY_DIRECTORY. So we need to use that for libdir on Windows. ``` ```...

cinstall doesn't install PDB debug symbol files with MSVC

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With MinGW, the debug information is embedded in the object files, but with MSVC it is split out into PDB files. These need to be installed alongside the object files...

Consider naming DLLs built with MinGW as `libfoo.dll`

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DLLs built with Autotools (which uses MinGW of course) are named `libfoo.dll`, and other build systems on Windows that use MSVC (like Visual Studio project files or CMake) use `foo.dll`....

cargo cinstall fails on Android and iOS because there's no shared libs

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``` Error: CliError { error: Some(failed to copy `/home/nirbheek/projects/repos/cerbero.git/rust/build/sources/android_universal/armv7/gst-plugins-rs-0.8.4.9999/_builddir/armv7-linux-androideabi/release/libgstrsjson.so` to `/home/nirbheek/projects/repos/cerbero.git/rust/build/dist/android_universal/armv7/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstrsjson.so` Caused by: No such file or directory (os error 2)), exit_code: 101 } ``` ``` Error: CliError { error:...

Wrapdb entrie that point to external git repos

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We (CC: @tp-m @MathieuDuponchelle) maintain a bunch of meson ports of projects that don't seem to be interested in the ports in gstreamer. We haven't submitted them to wrapdb because...

Silently ignoring changes to default_options in project() is a bad user experience

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This has come up repeatedly, most recently when @pwithnall saw CI failures that didn't get fixed when he added `c_std=c99` to `default_options` because we silently ignore changes to it on...

cc.has_function() should warn when the `prefix:` does not #include a header

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Not having a header in `prefix:` causes Meson to use detection methods that are slower and cause false-positives in at least three cases: 1. When using an MSYS/MinGW64 toolchain and...

`ObjectExt.emit_by_name()` has arcane syntax when there's no return value

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The [documentation says](https://gtk-rs.org/gtk-rs-core/stable/0.17/docs/glib/object/trait.ObjectExt.html#tymethod.emit_by_name): ```rust fn emit_by_name( &self, signal_name: &str, args: &[&dyn ToValue] ) -> R ``` `TryFromClosureReturnValue` is completely unhelpful: https://gtk-rs.org/gtk-rs-core/stable/0.17/docs/glib/closure/trait.TryFromClosureReturnValue.html It's really hard to figure out that you have...