The Issue
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For a long time now MinGW has been unsupported and unmaintained and at this point,
it looks like something that we should just leave behind and move on.
Why Remove
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One of the big motivations for MinGW back in the day is that it was free compared to MSVC which was licensed based.
However, now that this is no longer true we have basically stopped updating the need CMake files.
Along with the CMake files, there are several patches to the extern libs needed to make this work. For example, see:
https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/extern/carve/patches/mingw_w64.patch
If we wanted to keep MinGW then we would need to make more custom patches to the external libs and
this is not something our platform maintainers are willing to do.
For example, here is the patches needed to build python: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python3
Fixes T51301
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2648
Utility to get a file/dir in the path by index,
supporting negative indices to start from the end of the path.
Without this it wasn't straightforward to get
the a files parent directory name from a filepath.
Things like `BLI_uniquename` had nothing, but really nothing to do in
BLI_path_util files!
Also, got rid of length limitation in `BLI_uniquename_cb`, we can use
alloca here to avoid overhead of malloc while keeping free size (within
reasonable limits of course).
Same case as with space char really, one should not use those special chars in
filenames, but they are globally supported by all current FS/OS, so no real reason
to enforce that behvior on users here.
To be backported to 'a' release.
Filenames over 128 chars would crash.
Move BLI_newname into file_ops,
this was only used in one place and isn't all that re-usable.
Also remove special behavior for 4 digits.
- BLI_current_working_dir's return value must be checked, since it may fail.
- BLI_current_working_dir now behaves like getcwd, where a too-small target will return failure.
- avoid buffer overrun with BLI_path_cwd, by taking a maxlen arg.
BLI_filename_make_safe had several issues:
* Would replace all dots ('.'), not a great idea since it would break extensions.
* Was not checking for 'control' ASCII chars (though unlikely, better to be safe here).
* Win32 only: was not checking for forbidden names (con, aux, ltp0, com0, etc.).
New BLI_path_make_safe() simply checks each path's item with BLI_filename_make_safe().
Added a new BLI_path_utils func, `BLI_filename_make_safe()`, which for now simply
replaces unsafe chars for paths (like '\' or '/') by an underscore...
Do not allow going into un-readable directories at all.
Note we might want to reflect that 'state' in UI for users too, but that will be
for later.
Also, not quite sure this fix the windows case, will have to start my VM... :/
Current temporary data of Blender suffers one major issue - default 'temp' dir on Windows is never
automatically cleaned up, and can end being quite big when used by Blender, especially when we have
to store per-process data (using getpid() in file names).
To address this, this patch:
* Divides tempdir paths in two, one for 'base' temp dir (the same as previous unique tempdir path),
the other is a mkdtemp-generated sub-dir, specific to each Blender instance.
* Only uses base tempdir when we need some shallow persistance accross Blender sessions - and we always
reuse the same filename (quit.blend...) or generate small file (crash reports...).
* Uses temp sub-dir for heavy files like pointcache or renderEXRs (Save Buffer option).
* Erases temp sub-dir on quit or crash.
To get this working it also adds a working 'recursive delete' to BLI_delete() under Windows.
Note that, as in current code, the 'recover render result' hack-feature that was possible
with SaveBuffer option is still removed. A real renderresult cache feature will be added
soon, though.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, brecht, sergey
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, sergey
CC: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D531
