c/c++ package manager

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Repositories

LizardByte/Sunshine, LizardByte/libdisplaydevice, LizardByte/tray

Languages/Skills/Technologies

C, C++, CMake

Description

It's getting a little bit old when system packages are updated in different package managers, introducing breaking changes, and it's very difficult if not impossible to pin the versions.

Below is a table showing the current Sunshine packages and their respective names in both Conan and Conda. Conan seems to be a bit more complete.

I've also been reading about cpm (https://github.com/cpm-cmake/CPM.cmake) which seems interesting, particularly about the ability to easily apply patches.

The other option is to move more packages to submodules. In all cases I think static linking whereever possible will alleviate annoying issues for users on Linux and macOS.

The end goal is to just simplify the build process and make the builds more repeatable/consistent. I know that Plex uses Conan, which is what drew me to investigate that one.

I also briefly looked at vcpkg, but it is missing a lot of important ones.

Any feedback/discussion would be welcomed!

Type	package name	Conan	Conda
System	appindicator3-0.1	?	?
System	ayatana-appindicator3-0.1	?	?
System/Fetch	Boost	boost	boost-cpp
System	doxygen	doxygen	doxygen
Submodule	glad (generator)	glad	glad
System	graphviz	?	graphviz
Submodule	googletest	gtest	gtest
System	libcap	libcap	libcap
System	libcurl	libcurl	libcurl
System	libdrm	libdrm	libdrm
System	libevdev	libevdev	evdev
System	libnotify	?	?
System	libva	libva	libva
System	libva-drm	?	?
System	minhook	minhook	?
System	miniupnpc	miniupnpc	?
Submodule	nanors	?	?
System	nlohmann_json	nlohmann_json	nlohmann_json
System	npm	nodejs	nodejs
Submodule	nv-codec-headers	nv-codec-headers	?
Submodule	nvapi-open-source-sdk	?	?
Submodule	nvfbc	?	?
System	OpenSSL	openssl	openssl
System	PkgConfig	pkgconf	pkgconfig
Submodule	Simple-Web-Server	?	?
System	systemd	libsystemd	libsystemd
System	Threads	?	?
Submodule	TPCircularBuffer	?	?
System	Udev	libudev	libudev
System	Wayland	wayland	wayland
Submodule	wayland-protocols	wayland-protocols	wayland-protocols
Submodule	wlr-protocols	?	?
System	X11	xorg ?	xorg-libx11
System	zlib	zlib	zlib or libzlib

Packages that should not come from a package manager:

Type	package name
Submodule	build-deps (FFmpeg)
Submodule	doxyconfig
Submodule	inputtino
Submodule	libdisplaydevice
Submodule	moonlight-common-c
Submodule	tray
Submodule	ViGEmClient

Conda References:

• https://wolfv.github.io/posts/2019/06/12/conda-for-cpp.html
• https://computing.docs.ligo.org/conda/compiling/

Also see: https://moderncppdevops.com/pkg-mngr-roundup/ for other options.

Estimated Effort

effort:Extra-Large

Priority

priority:Medium

Target Milestone

6+ months

Dependencies

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