Problem: stable python ABI not used by default
Solution: Enable stable python ABI v3.8 when building with python3/dyn
by default, update the default Python3 version to 3.8 for
MS-Windows (Ken Takata)
closes: #15470
related: #15457
Signed-off-by: Ken Takata <kentkt@csc.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: MS-Windows: MSVC Makefile is a bit hard to read
(after v9.1.0657)
Solution: indent the if/else statements to improve readability
(Ken Takata)
closes: #15428
Signed-off-by: Ken Takata <kentkt@csc.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: MS-Windows: MSVC build time can be optimized
Solution: Stop using Powershell, show detected version, read _MSC_VER
and _MSC_FULL_VER in a single cl execution. (Ken Takata)
closes: #15421
Signed-off-by: Ken Takata <kentkt@csc.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: MS-Windows: MSVC Makefile CPU handling can be improved
Solution: Update Makefile and also remove some old code
(Ken Takata)
* The variable `ASSEMBLY_ARCHITECTURE` was originally used to generate
the manifest file. However, this was removed in v7.0.198. Remove
`ASSEMBLY_ARCHITECTURE` and use `CPU` instead.
* `/arch:AVX512` is available starting from Visual C++ 2017.
* ARM64 was not considered when validating CPUNR.
Skip the validation for ARM64 for now.
* Remove old code for VC6/7 and Win9x.
closes: #15422
Signed-off-by: Ken Takata <kentkt@csc.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: MS-Windows: Style issues in MSVC Makefile
Solution: Fix style issues, simplify logic
(Ken Takata)
* Add space around the operators for consistency.
* Remove unnecessary ren command. Use the /Fe option to create
install.exe directly.
* Remove unnecessary mkdir auto command. src/auto should always exist.
closes: #15389
Signed-off-by: Ken Takata <kentkt@csc.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: MS-Windows: startup code can be improved
Solution: Re-work and optimize win32 startup code
(Ken Takata)
* Revise the code and reduce #ifdefs.
* For VIMDLL, stop using the default CRT startup code to reduce the file
size.
The file size becomes ~130 KB -> ~34 KB on MSVC.
* Update comments. Make them consistent between os_w32dll.c and
os_w32exe.c.
closes: #15352
Signed-off-by: Ken Takata <kentkt@csc.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: inconsistent parameter in Makefiles for Vim executable
Solution: consistently use $VIMPROG across all Makefiles
(RestorerZ)
closes: #15099
Signed-off-by: RestorerZ <restorer@mail2k.ru>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: MS-Windows: libvterm compilation can be optimized
Solution: Enable batch inference for libvterm (Ken Takata)
Enable batch inference for libvterm by using $(OBJDIR)/libvterm as the
object directory. This should make the compilation process a bit faster.
closes: #15118
Signed-off-by: Ken Takata <kentkt@csc.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: MS-Windows: too long lines in Make_mvc.mak
Solution: Wrap long lines in Make_mvc.mak (Ken Takata)
closes: #15133
Signed-off-by: Ken Takata <kentkt@csc.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: MS-Windows: too much legacy code
Solution: Clean up old code
(Ken Takata)
* Remove very old codes for Cygwin version of GCC.
Nowadays Cygwin GCC cannot be used for building Win32 Vim.
(The `-mno-cygwin` option was removed in Cygwin GCC4.)
* Remove old codes for old versions of MinGW.
Remove `__MINGW32__` as much as possible.
* Adjust makefile.
closes: #15044
Signed-off-by: K.Takata <kentkt@csc.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: eval.c is too long
Solution: Move garbage collection code to new gc.c file
(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
closes: #14824
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: MS-Windows: patch number is zero in installer
(jonathan-b-wiebe)
Solution: Set VIM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL, fix a few typos in the installer
(RestorerZ)
fixes: #14629closes: #14635
Signed-off-by: RestorerZ <restorer@mail2k.ru>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: MS-Windows: Hard to define the Vim Patchlevel with leading
zeroes for the installer
Solution: re-define VIM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL_STR with leading zeroes,
interpret Patchlevel as decimal in Make_mvc.mak
(RestorerZ)
closes: #14471
Signed-off-by: RestorerZ <restorer@mail2k.ru>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Installer does not remove all files
Solution: Update installer and delete all files on uninstall
update Sodium library dependency, update Readme
(RestorerZ)
closes: #14214
Signed-off-by: RestorerZ <restorer@mail2k.ru>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: sound_playfile() fails when using powershell
Solution: quote filename using doublequotes, don't escape filename,
because it doesn't use the shell
Avoiding powershell escaping because mci open command doesn't support
single quoted filenames: open 'C:\whatever\sound.wav' is not valid.
closes: #13471
Signed-off-by: GuyBrush <miguel.barro@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: win32: using deprecated wsock32 api
Solution: Use winsock2 (ws2_32) consistently
win32: Stop using wsock32
We have already used ws2_32 (winsock2) and already dropped support for
Windows 95 and NT4. So, we don't need to care about wsock32.
Use ws2_32 consistently.
closes: #13383
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Co-authored-by: Ken Takata <kentkt@csc.jp>
Problem: win32: issues with stable python ABI
Solution: if_python3,win32: Fix Python3 stable ABI
There were some issues in current stable ABI implementation on Windows:
* Python DLL name should be `python3.dll` instead of `python311.dll` and
so on. (See: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/stable.html)
* Some non-stable API functions were used:
- `_PyObject_NextNotImplemented`
- `PyStdPrinter_Type`
* `reset_stdin()` and `hook_py_exit()` didn't work with `python3.dll`.
`python3.dll` is a special type of DLL called forwarder DLL.
It just forwards the functions to other DLL (e.g. `python311.dll`).
There were two issues regarding these functions:
- `python3.dll` doesn't have import tables. This caused a crash in
`get_imported_func_info()`. Add a check whether the specified DLL
has an import table.
- `reset_stdin()` and `hook_py_exit()` should be applied to the
forwarded DLL (e.g. `python311.dll`), not to `python3.dll`.
Check the export directory of `python3.dll` to find the forwarded
DLL and apply the functions to it.
closes: #13260
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Co-authored-by: Ken Takata <kentkt@csc.jp>
Problem: No support for stable Python 3 ABI
Solution: Support Python 3 stable ABI
Commits:
1) Support Python 3 stable ABI to allow mixed version interoperatbility
Vim currently supports embedding Python for use with plugins, and the
"dynamic" linking option allows the user to specify a locally installed
version of Python by setting `pythonthreedll`. However, one caveat is
that the Python 3 libs are not binary compatible across minor versions,
and mixing versions can potentially be dangerous (e.g. let's say Vim was
linked against the Python 3.10 SDK, but the user sets `pythonthreedll`
to a 3.11 lib). Usually, nothing bad happens, but in theory this could
lead to crashes, memory corruption, and other unpredictable behaviors.
It's also difficult for the user to tell something is wrong because Vim
has no way of reporting what Python 3 version Vim was linked with.
For Vim installed via a package manager, this usually isn't an issue
because all the dependencies would already be figured out. For prebuilt
Vim binaries like MacVim (my motivation for working on this), AppImage,
and Win32 installer this could potentially be an issue as usually a
single binary is distributed. This is more tricky when a new Python
version is released, as there's a chicken-and-egg issue with deciding
what Python version to build against and hard to keep in sync when a new
Python version just drops and we have a mix of users of different Python
versions, and a user just blindly upgrading to a new Python could lead to
bad interactions with Vim.
Python 3 does have a solution for this problem: stable ABI / limited API
(see https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/stable.html). The C SDK limits the
API to a set of functions that are promised to be stable across
versions. This pull request adds an ifdef config that allows us to turn
it on when building Vim. Vim binaries built with this option should be
safe to freely link with any Python 3 libraies without having the
constraint of having to use the same minor version.
Note: Python 2 has no such concept and this doesn't change how Python 2
integration works (not that there is going to be a new version of Python
2 that would cause compatibility issues in the future anyway).
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Technical details:
======
The stable ABI can be accessed when we compile with the Python 3 limited
API (by defining `Py_LIMITED_API`). The Python 3 code (in `if_python3.c`
and `if_py_both.h`) would now handle this and switch to limited API
mode. Without it set, Vim will still use the full API as before so this
is an opt-in change.
The main difference is that `PyType_Object` is now an opaque struct that
we can't directly create "static types" out of, and we have to create
type objects as "heap types" instead. This is because the struct is not
stable and changes from version to version (e.g. 3.8 added a
`tp_vectorcall` field to it). I had to change all the types to be
allocated on the heap instead with just a pointer to them.
Other functions are also simply missing in limited API, or they are
introduced too late (e.g. `PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize` in 3.10) to it that
we need some other ways to do the same thing, so I had to abstract a few
things into macros, and sometimes re-implement functions like
`PyObject_NEW`.
One caveat is that in limited API, `OutputType` (used for replacing
`sys.stdout`) no longer inherits from `PyStdPrinter_Type` which I don't
think has any real issue other than minor differences in how they
convert to a string and missing a couple functions like `mode()` and
`fileno()`.
Also fixed an existing bug where `tp_basicsize` was set incorrectly for
`BufferObject`, `TabListObject, `WinListObject`.
Technically, there could be a small performance drop, there is a little
more indirection with accessing type objects, and some APIs like
`PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize` are missing, but in practice I didn't see any
difference, and any well-written Python plugin should try to avoid
excessing callbacks to the `vim` module in Python anyway.
I only tested limited API mode down to Python 3.7, which seemes to
compile and work fine. I haven't tried earlier Python versions.
2) Fix PyIter_Check on older Python vers / type##Ptr unused warning
For PyIter_Check, older versions exposed them as either macros (used in
full API), or a function (for use in limited API). A previous change
exposed PyIter_Check to the dynamic build because Python just moved it
to function-only in 3.10 anyway. Because of that, just make sure we
always grab the function in dynamic builds in earlier versions since
that's what Python eventually did anyway.
3) Move Py_LIMITED_API define to configure script
Can now use --with-python-stable-abi flag to customize what stable ABI
version to target. Can also use an env var to do so as well.
4) Show +python/dyn-stable in :version, and allow has() feature query
Not sure if the "/dyn-stable" suffix would break things, or whether we
should do it another way. Or just don't show it in version and rely on
has() feature checking.
5) Documentation first draft. Still need to implement v:python3_version
6) Fix PyIter_Check build breaks when compiling against Python 3.8
7) Add CI coverage stable ABI on Linux/Windows / make configurable on Windows
This adds configurable options for Windows make files (both MinGW and
MSVC). CI will also now exercise both traditional full API and stable
ABI for Linux and Windows in the matrix for coverage.
Also added a "dynamic" option to Linux matrix as a drive-by change to
make other scripting languages like Ruby / Perl testable under both
static and dynamic builds.
8) Fix inaccuracy in Windows docs
Python's own docs are confusing but you don't actually want to use
`python3.dll` for the dynamic linkage.
9) Add generated autoconf file
10) Add v:python3_version support
This variable indicates the version of Python3 that Vim was built
against (PY_VERSION_HEX), and will be useful to check whether the Python
library you are loading in dynamically actually fits it. When built with
stable ABI, it will be the limited ABI version instead
(`Py_LIMITED_API`), which indicates the minimum version of Python 3 the
user should have, rather than the exact match. When stable ABI is used,
we won't be exposing PY_VERSION_HEX in this var because it just doesn't
seem necessary to do so (the whole point of stable ABI is the promise
that it will work across versions), and I don't want to confuse the user
with too many variables.
Also, cleaned up some documentation, and added help tags.
11) Fix Python 3.7 compat issues
Fix a couple issues when using limited API < 3.8
- Crash on exit: In Python 3.7, if a heap-allocated type is destroyed
before all instances are, it would cause a crash later. This happens
when we destroyed `OptionsType` before calling `Py_Finalize` when
using the limited API. To make it worse, later versions changed the
semantics and now each instance has a strong reference to its own type
and the recommendation has changed to have each instance de-ref its
own type and have its type in GC traversal. To avoid dealing with
these cross-version variations, we just don't free the heap type. They
are static types in non-limited-API anyway and are designed to last
through the entirety of the app, and we also don't restart the Python
runtime and therefore do not need it to have absolutely 0 leaks.
See:
- https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html#changes-in-the-c-api
- https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.9.html#changes-in-the-c-api
- PyIter_Check: This function is not provided in limited APIs older than
3.8. Previously I was trying to mock it out using manual
PyType_GetSlot() but it was brittle and also does not actually work
properly for static types (it will generate a Python error). Just
return false. It does mean using limited API < 3.8 is not recommended
as you lose the functionality to handle iterators, but from playing
with plugins I couldn't find it to be an issue.
- Fix loading of PyIter_Check so it will be done when limited API < 3.8.
Otherwise loading a 3.7 Python lib will fail even if limited API was
specified to use it.
12) Make sure to only load `PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize` in needed in limited API
We don't use this function unless limited API >= 3.10, but we were
loading it regardless. Usually it's ok in Unix-like systems where Python
just has a single lib that we load from, but in Windows where there is a
separate python3.dll this would not work as the symbol would not have
been exposed in this more limited DLL file. This makes it much clearer
under what condition is this function needed.
closes: #12032
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Co-authored-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Problem: Classes are not documented or implemented yet.
Solution: Make the first steps at documenting Vim9 objects, classes and
interfaces. Make initial choices for the syntax. Add a skeleton
implementation. Add "public" and "this" in the command table.
Problem: It is not easy to see what client-server commands are doing.
Solution: Add channel log messages if ch_log() is available. Move the
channel logging and make it available with the +eval feature.
Problem: There is no real need for a "big" build.
Solution: Move common features to "normal" build, less often used features
to the "huge" build. (Martin Tournoij, closes#11283)
Problem: Too many #ifdefs.
Solution: Graduate the +cmdwin feature. Now the tiny and small builds are
equal, drop the small build. (Martin Tournoij, closes#11268)
Problem: MS-Windows: cannot build with some sodium libraries.
Solution: Make the DLL name configuragle. Add build instructions.
(Ken Takata, closes#9905)
Problem: Generating nv_cmdidxs.h requires building Vim twice.
Solution: Move the table into a separate file and use a separate executable
to extract the command characters. (Ozaki Kiichi, closes#9669)
Problem: Generating the normal command table at runtime is inefficient.
Solution: Generate the table with a Vim script and put it in a header file.
(Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes#9648)
Problem: CodeQL reports problem in if_cscope causing it to fail.
Solution: Use execvp() instead of execl(). Merge the header file into the
source file. (Ozaki Kiichi, closes#9519)
Problem: Memory allocation functions don't have their own place.
Solution: Move memory allocation functions to alloc.c. (Yegappan
Lakshmanan, closes#8717)
