- Added optional gRPC support in CMake, allowing for conditional inclusion based on the `YAZE_WITH_GRPC` option.
- Updated the handling of the FTXUI library to ensure it is fetched if not found, improving build reliability.
- Streamlined dependency management by including the `dependencies.cmake` file in the appropriate location.
Benefits:
- Provides flexibility for users to enable gRPC support, enhancing functionality.
- Improves build process by ensuring necessary libraries are available and properly configured.
- Added settings to disable x86-specific optimizations in the CMake configuration for ARM64 macOS builds, ensuring compatibility and stability.
- Removed redundant x86-specific settings that were previously included, streamlining the configuration.
Benefits:
- Enhances build compatibility for ARM64 macOS users by preventing the inclusion of incompatible optimizations.
- Introduced a new `yaze_grpc_support` library to centralize all gRPC and protobuf usage, addressing Windows linker errors and improving build stability.
- Updated CMake configurations across various components to link against the new support library instead of individual protobuf targets, simplifying the linking process.
- Removed legacy whole-archive linking logic, ensuring a cleaner and more maintainable build setup.
Benefits:
- Reduces complexity in CMake files and enhances compatibility across platforms.
- Prevents potential linker errors by consolidating gRPC and protobuf dependencies into a single library.
- Enhanced CMake configuration to conditionally apply /WHOLEARCHIVE linking for protobuf targets, ensuring only library targets are included.
- Updated linking logic across multiple components including `yaze`, `yaze_emu`, `z3ed`, and test suites to improve compatibility and prevent linker errors.
Benefits:
- Increases build stability and clarity by ensuring only relevant targets are linked, reducing potential conflicts during the build process.
- Upgraded gRPC version from v1.68.0 to v1.75.1 for improved compatibility across all platforms.
- Removed /WHOLEARCHIVE linking for protobuf to prevent duplicate version resource errors in the dependency chain.
- Updated status messages to reflect the latest gRPC version and build optimizations.
Benefits:
- Enhances build stability and compatibility with modern toolchains.
- Simplifies linking process by avoiding unnecessary options that cause conflicts.
- Changed gRPC version from v1.75.1 to v1.68.0 to resolve linker errors related to protobuf resource files on Windows.
- Updated compatibility notes to reflect the stable version and reasons for the downgrade.
Benefits:
- Improves build stability on Windows by avoiding LNK1241 errors during linking.
- Ensures better compatibility with clang-cl and MSVC toolchains.
- Modified CI workflow to correctly format the toolchain file argument for CMake.
- Updated release workflow to enhance the release creation process, ensuring the latest release is marked appropriately.
- Added configuration to disable protobuf version resource on Windows to prevent duplicate resource errors during linking.
Benefits:
- Improves build reliability and consistency across different environments.
- Streamlines the release process, making it more intuitive for developers.
- Upgraded gRPC from v1.67.1 to v1.75.1 for improved Windows compatibility.
- Disabled BoringSSL ASM optimizations for better clang-cl support.
- Updated documentation to reflect changes in build times and reasons for using FetchContent over vcpkg for gRPC.
- Removed unused gRPC and protobuf dependencies from `vcpkg.json`.
- Updated CI configuration to enable vcpkg installation for SDL2 and yaml-cpp.
- Added support for MSVC in CI workflows and improved caching strategies for vcpkg packages.
- Enhanced logging in build steps to provide better feedback on dependency status and build progress.
- Adjusted gRPC versioning in `grpc.cmake` to use platform-specific versions: v1.75.1 for macOS/Linux and v1.67.1 for Windows MSVC.
- Added detailed logging to indicate the selected gRPC version and its compatibility rationale.
Benefits:
- Enhances compatibility with modern compilers and platforms, improving overall build reliability.
- Added detailed logging for vcpkg toolchain detection and gRPC target verification in `grpc_windows.cmake`.
- Updated gRPC version to v1.67.1 for improved MSVC compatibility and stability.
- Enhanced target checks for `protoc` and `grpc_cpp_plugin`, providing fallbacks and clearer error messages.
- Streamlined the export of gRPC and protobuf targets to ensure proper linking in Windows builds.
Benefits:
- Improves build diagnostics and error handling for gRPC integration on Windows.
- Ensures compatibility with modern compilers and enhances overall build reliability.
- Eliminated the custom vcpkg overlay for SDL2, which was previously used to address installation issues on Windows.
- Updated `vcpkg.json` to remove SDL2 dependency and related configurations from CI and release workflows.
- Deleted associated documentation and files for the SDL2 overlay to streamline the project structure.
Benefits:
- Simplifies the vcpkg configuration by removing unnecessary overlays, improving maintainability.
- Reduces complexity in the CI and release processes, enhancing overall build reliability.
- Introduced custom vcpkg port overlays to address SDL2 installation issues on Windows by skipping pkgconfig fixup.
- Updated CI and release workflows to include the new `VCPKG_OVERLAY_PORTS` configuration for enhanced build reliability.
- Added documentation for the overlays, detailing their purpose and usage.
Benefits:
- Prevents build failures related to SDL2 on Windows, improving the overall stability of the build process.
- Streamlines the integration of patched ports without forking the vcpkg repository, enhancing maintainability.
- Modified CMake presets to include static triplet for vcpkg in Windows configurations, enhancing build consistency.
- Updated vcpkg baseline and commit ID across configuration files to ensure compatibility with the latest package versions.
- Enhanced CI workflows to utilize the new vcpkg toolchain file, improving the setup process for Windows builds.
Benefits:
- Ensures the project leverages the latest features and fixes from vcpkg, enhancing overall stability.
- Streamlines the Windows build process by consolidating vcpkg configurations, reducing potential discrepancies during builds.
- Introduced new dependencies for SDL2, yaml-cpp, and zlib in the vcpkg.json file, enhancing the project's capability to support additional features on Windows.
- Updated the SDL2 override to specify version 2.30.9, ensuring compatibility with the latest features.
Benefits:
- Expands the project's functionality by integrating essential libraries, improving overall performance and maintainability.
- Modified the Ninja version command in both CI and release workflows to ensure the correct environment path is set before executing the version check.
- This change enhances the reliability of the Ninja installation process on Windows.
Benefits:
- Improves the setup process for Windows environments by ensuring accurate feedback on the Ninja installation, leading to more efficient builds.
- Refactored the logic for appending Protobuf targets to streamline the configuration.
- Removed unnecessary checks and consolidated target handling for improved clarity and maintainability.
- Introduced YAZE_PROTOBUF_WHOLEARCHIVE_TARGETS to facilitate linking without "lite" variants.
Benefits:
- Enhances the organization of CMake configurations, leading to a more efficient build process.
- Introduced YAZE_PROTOBUF_WHOLEARCHIVE_TARGETS to streamline linking of Protobuf targets, excluding "lite" variants.
- Updated CMake configurations across various components (yaze, yaze_core_lib, yaze_editor, yaze_net, yaze_agent, z3ed) to utilize the new whole-archive targets for MSVC builds.
- Improved test suite linking to ensure all Protobuf symbols are included during the build process.
Benefits:
- Enhances compatibility and maintainability of Protobuf linking, leading to a more robust build configuration.
Benefits:
- Streamlines the build process by allowing for multiple Protobuf targets, enhancing compatibility and maintainability.
- Improves session management capabilities within the editor, leading to a more organized and efficient user experience.
- Enhance Protobuf target handling in CMake configuration
- Updated CMake files to support multiple Protobuf targets, improving flexibility in linking.
- Adjusted target link libraries across various components (yaze, yaze_core_lib, yaze_editor, etc.) to utilize the new
- Added caching for ccache and CMake dependencies in CI and release workflows to improve build performance.
- Updated installation commands to include ccache across Linux, macOS, and Windows environments.
- Enhanced CMake configuration steps to utilize ccache for faster builds and added statistics reporting.
Benefits:
- Reduces build times and improves efficiency in CI processes, facilitating quicker feedback and integration.
- Updated CI and release workflows to enable building the emulator (YAZE_BUILD_EMU), Z3ED (YAZE_BUILD_Z3ED), and additional tools (YAZE_BUILD_TOOLS).
- Ensured consistent build configurations across different platforms to enhance testing and deployment capabilities.
Benefits:
- Improves the completeness of builds in CI and release processes, facilitating better testing and integration of all components.
- Updated CMake files to conditionally link against libprotobuf based on the YAZE_PROTOBUF_TARGET variable across various modules (core, net, agent, z3ed).
- Ensured consistent use of the static MSVC runtime to align with vcpkg static triplets.
- Improved clarity in build logs by adding status messages for whole-archive linking conditions.
Benefits:
- Enhances modularity and compatibility of the build system with protobuf.
- Streamlines the build process for different platforms by ensuring appropriate linking based on configuration options.
- Modified CMake settings to ensure consistent use of the Homebrew LLVM/Clang installation on macOS.
- Added a new toolchain file to specify the correct compiler and header search paths, resolving potential conflicts.
- Updated CMake presets to enable the EMU build and set appropriate compiler flags.
Benefits:
- Enhances build reliability and compatibility on macOS by utilizing the Homebrew LLVM toolchain.
- Streamlines the build process with improved configuration management.
- Updated CMake configuration to always include the ImGui Test Engine when tests are enabled, removing conditional checks for UI tests.
- Simplified feature flag management by enabling JSON and gRPC by default, with a minimal build option to disable only the most expensive features.
- Enhanced status messages to provide clearer feedback on build configurations and feature availability.
Benefits:
- Streamlined integration of the ImGui Test Engine for testing purposes.
- Improved clarity in feature flag settings, making it easier to manage build configurations.
- Modified the yaze_add_compiler_flags function to set C++ and C standards in the parent scope, ensuring they are applied correctly across the project.
- Added a new compiler flag for MSVC to support C++20/23 features, enhancing compatibility with modern C++ standards.
Benefits:
- Improved consistency in compiler settings across different CMake targets.
- Enhanced support for newer C++ features, facilitating modern development practices.
- Made ABSL_TARGETS available to the rest of the project via include(), improving modularity.
- Added MSVC-specific compile options for yaml-cpp to address exception handling warnings.
Benefits:
- Streamlined integration of Abseil targets across the project.
- Improved compatibility and reduced warnings for yaml-cpp on MSVC.
- Added new entries to .gitignore to exclude generated files and directories, improving project cleanliness.
- Set minimum policy version for subdirectories in CMake to ensure compatibility with older dependencies like yaml-cpp, enhancing build reliability.
Benefits:
- Streamlined project structure by ignoring unnecessary files.
- Improved compatibility and maintainability of the CMake configuration.
- Modified the CMake configuration for yaml-cpp to use version 0.8.0 with an inline patch, ensuring compatibility with CMake 3.31+.
- Implemented a manual population and patching process to adjust the minimum required CMake version in the yaml-cpp CMakeLists.txt, enhancing build reliability.
Benefits:
- Improved compatibility with newer CMake versions.
- Streamlined dependency management for yaml-cpp.
- Refactored CMakeLists.txt to streamline project configuration and improve readability.
- Introduced new utility functions in `utils.cmake` for setting compiler flags and managing dependencies.
- Added `dependencies.cmake` to centralize third-party dependency management, enhancing modularity.
- Updated CI workflows to include new build options and improved logging for better feedback during configuration.
- Implemented precompiled headers in various libraries to speed up compilation times.
Benefits:
- Improved maintainability and clarity of the build system.
- Enhanced build performance through precompiled headers.
- Streamlined dependency management for easier integration of third-party libraries.
- Removed the abseil dependency from vcpkg.json for Windows platform.
- Updated CMake configuration to prevent finding system-installed protobuf and abseil, ensuring gRPC uses bundled versions.
- Modified todo_manager.cc to convert paths to strings for consistency.
- Updated vision_action_refiner.cc to explicitly convert stripped whitespace strings to std::string.
- Added undefinitions for Windows macros in z3ed_network_client.cc to avoid conflicts with method names.
- Updated CMakeLists.txt to provide clearer logging and error messages for vcpkg integration, including detailed status reports for toolchain and triplet settings.
- Modified CI workflows to utilize manifest mode for vcpkg installations, improving dependency management and build reliability.
- Enhanced SDL2 and gRPC configurations to prioritize vcpkg packages, ensuring faster builds and clearer fallback mechanisms.
- Improved overall CMake structure for better readability and maintainability, including updated messages for build configurations and warnings.
- Removed the `builtin-baseline` from `vcpkg.json` to prevent version database mismatches.
- Updated the CI workflow to synchronize with the stable vcpkg commit `c8696863d371ab7f46e213d8f5ca923c4aef2a00`.
- Adjusted the CI build matrix to remove the x86 Windows build due to cpp-httplib incompatibility.
- Added compiler definitions in `cmake/grpc.cmake` to prevent Windows macro pollution in protobuf-generated headers.
- Updated gRPC configuration to use version 1.67.1, improving compatibility with modern compilers and fixing MSVC template issues.
- Enhanced warning messages for missing vcpkg gRPC installation, providing clearer instructions for faster builds.
- Introduced a new dungeon test harness tool to capture and dump the state of WRAM and CPU/PPU registers, aiding in emulator testing and development.
- Organized source groups in CMake for better structure and clarity in the input and UI systems.
- Introduced `test_ai_features.ps1` for Windows to validate AI agent, multimodal vision, and GUI automation capabilities.
- Added `test_ai_features.sh` for macOS/Linux with similar testing functionalities, ensuring cross-platform compatibility.
- Created `yaze.plist.in` for macOS bundle configuration, enabling proper application packaging.
- Enhanced build verification scripts to check for vcpkg availability, improving dependency management for Windows builds.
- Updated CMake configurations to include new test scripts and plist file, streamlining the build process.
- Added a new `grpc_windows.cmake` file for optimized gRPC builds on Windows using vcpkg, including checks for required targets and fallbacks.
- Updated `grpc.cmake` to include the new Windows-specific configuration and streamline the build process.
- Removed the `abseil-cpp` submodule from `.gitmodules` as it is no longer needed.
- Integrated gRPC service for automated GUI testing in ImGuiTestHarness.
- Implemented service methods: Ping, Click, Type, Wait, Assert, and Screenshot.
- Created proto definitions for the gRPC service and messages.
- Added server lifecycle management for the gRPC server.
- Included necessary dependencies and build configurations in CMake.
- Modified the `YAZE.vcxproj` file to change the Vcpkg triplet settings for Windows platforms from static to dynamic.
- Updated the `AdditionalDependencies` for various configurations to use dynamic versions of SDL2 libraries, enhancing compatibility and reducing build complexity.
- Adjusted the `cmake/vcpkg.cmake` file to reflect the change in library linkage, ensuring consistent behavior across builds.
- Modified the `YAZE.vcxproj` file to replace dynamic SDL2 library dependencies with static versions, enhancing build performance and reducing runtime dependencies.
- Updated `cmake/sdl2.cmake` to prioritize vcpkg for SDL2 on Windows, falling back to bundled SDL when necessary, and improved handling for non-Windows platforms.
- Adjusted `cmake/vcpkg.cmake` to set the library linkage to static, ensuring consistent behavior across builds.
- These changes streamline the build process and align with the project's library management strategy.
- Eliminated all references to PNG and ZLIB dependencies in CMake configuration and project files.
- Updated documentation to reflect the removal of PNG support and related functionalities.
- Adjusted build scripts and source files to remove unused code related to PNG handling, ensuring a cleaner codebase.
- Updated the CMake configuration to include SDL2main for Windows builds when using the bundled SDL.
- Added a definition to handle SDL main entry point, improving compatibility for Windows applications.
- Updated changelog to reflect the new support for SDL2main in version 0.3.1.
- Updated the builtin-baseline in vcpkg.json to the latest version.
- Removed GLEW references from CMake files to avoid MSYS2 issues and streamline the build process.
- Adjusted include and link directories in z3ed.cmake to reflect the removal of GLEW.
- Added additional Abseil flags modules to the CMake configuration for better support.
- Refactored Windows-specific font loading code to avoid namespace conflicts by using the `::` prefix for Windows API calls.
- Improved error handling and ensured proper memory management when retrieving font paths from the Windows registry.
- Added architecture detection in CMakeLists.txt for Windows, defining appropriate compile flags for ARM64, x64, and x86 platforms.
- Updated yaze.vcxproj to include Debug and Release configurations for ARM64, ensuring proper setup for ARM64 builds.
- Modified GitHub Actions workflow to support packaging for Windows ARM64, creating artifacts for both x64 and ARM64 builds.
- Added `_SILENCE_ALL_CXX23_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS` definition to suppress all C++23 deprecation warnings in CMakeLists.txt for both MSVC and GCC/Clang.
- Updated `yaze.vcxproj` to remove unnecessary `absl::numeric` from AdditionalLibraryDirectories, streamlining library paths.
- Modified `absl.cmake` to conditionally include `absl::int128` only on non-Windows platforms, avoiding C++23 deprecation issues and improving cross-platform compatibility.
