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12:24 rubenwardy https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/android/app/src/main/java/net/minetest/minetest/UnzipService.java#L125
12:25 rubenwardy this deletes the zipfile after extracting the first file?  ?
12:26 sfan5 that's okay since it still has the file handle open
12:26 sfan5 but why
12:31 rubenwardy yeah, I imagine this would fail on windows
12:31 rubenwardy but Android uses handles like linux
12:31 MTDiscord <Warr1024> Sounds dangerous.  Things can crash during an unzip.  You can run out of storage space, the process can be killed, etc.
12:32 rubenwardy this should use try finally
12:33 MTDiscord <Warr1024> Ideally any kind of "destructive" unzipping process should queue up deletions and not process them until the full "transaction" is done, which might be more than just a single unzipping...
12:34 MTDiscord <Warr1024> e.g. if you're doing like some kind of data migration, don't delete the originals until the full migration succeeds, in case you have to retry the migration from the start.
12:34 rubenwardy it largely ovewrites though
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13:19 rubenwardy hm, looks like Android builds with fast-math
13:21 pgimeno you want -fno-reciprocal-math for a certain unit test to pass
13:21 sfan5 if you want to change it replace it with -fno-math-errno
13:22 sfan5 eventually android should just use cmake like all other platforms do
13:22 pgimeno https://github.com/minetest/minetest/commit/5cbe8437a8f7efc9c76baf23de700e96ad96b385
13:25 pgimeno I'm not too happy with -ffinite-math-only but well
13:26 sfan5 it breaks a thing in fact
13:29 rubenwardy #11466 is ready for review, APKs attached
13:29 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/11466 -- Use scoped app storage on Android by rubenwardy
13:34 Krock testing on android 6
13:36 Krock "App was not installed" ... very helpful thanks. Android 6.0, armv7l, kernel 3.10.86
13:37 sfan5 small reminder: #11287
13:37 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/11287 -- Take advantage of IrrlichtMt target by JosiahWI
13:37 rubenwardy I've heard of that before, from Warr1024 maybe?
13:37 rubenwardy I suspect it's something to do with Android security settings
13:37 rubenwardy @Warr1024
13:39 Krock currently running 5.1.0 (24) and no updates show up on the play store
13:39 MTDiscord <Warr1024> "app not installed" is basically a super-catch-all error that can happen for a lot of reasons.
13:39 MTDiscord <Warr1024> Could be you're installing for the wrong arch.  Could be that you already had a previous install of MT built with a different key
13:40 MTDiscord <Warr1024> also when I "assemblerelease" it tries to build a release APK but doesn't have a release key, so naively builds an unsigned APK but you can't install an unsigned APK
13:40 Krock tried armv7 first, then armv8, both failed with the same message
13:40 MTDiscord <Warr1024> so you have to "assembledebug" to make a debug build and sign it with the debug key.
13:40 MTDiscord <Warr1024> You have to uninstall any previous version of MT completely, then install a debug APK.
13:41 Krock "App was installed". oh neat. thanks.
13:41 rubenwardy weird
13:41 Krock crashes on startup tho, right after asking for SD-Card permissions (there's none installed, but I clicked yes anyway)
13:42 rubenwardy do you have ADB?
13:42 MTDiscord <Warr1024> Yeah, Android assumes that you either (1) know what you're doing, or (2) have an ADB bridge attached and can view technical logs that way or something, so they don't make the error messages easy to diagnose from an end-user perspective.
13:42 Krock nope. trying logcat, maybe it helps
13:42 rubenwardy yeah, logcat is part of adb
13:43 MTDiscord <Warr1024> My recent devices are not rooted/custom, and I don't really have android debugging tooling setup (I mostly just make PWAs rather than native apps) so I'm probably not the best person to give you details in failure scenarios :-)
13:43 rubenwardy ha, 5.4.1 resulted in a 40% increase in crashes on Android
13:43 rubenwardy great
13:44 rubenwardy We should probably look at using Sentry or something, and actually monitoring these things
13:44 Krock Android just has a shit way of debugging
13:45 rubenwardy #9107 should probably be fixed at some point
13:45 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/9107 -- arm64-v8a. Packets time out in singleplayer. RE-SENDING timed-out
13:46 rubenwardy because it kills loading performance
13:58 Krock > [copy_match_files,864]: copy [/data/system/dropbox/data_app_crash@1626616521533.txt] to [/data/log/logcache/-1228830416/data_app_crash@1626616521533.txt]
13:58 Krock /system/bin/sh: cd: /data/system/dropbox: Permission denied
13:58 Krock well thanks
13:59 rubenwardy that'll be from something else
13:59 rubenwardy you'll want to filter for `net.minetest.minetest`
14:00 Krock I have no idea how to use logcat. I just ran it directly, with stdout to a file
14:00 rubenwardy Did you reproduce the crash in that time?
14:01 Krock I started the app, so yes.
14:01 rubenwardy do you get any toasts when it crashes?
14:01 rubenwardy messages that appear at the bottom
14:01 Krock crash without message. the only that's left is a status message about "Minetest is starting..."
14:02 Krock sorry. "Loading Minetest" "Less than 1 minute..." is the exact wording, no translation.
14:02 rubenwardy there's no error messages in the logs
14:03 rubenwardy I'll try an emulator
14:03 Krock adb logcat >file    should be enough, no?
14:04 rubenwardy yeah
14:06 Krock re-tested. same lines in grep "net.minetest"
14:06 sfan5 better grep -i minetest
14:08 Krock same matches
14:20 rubenwardy emulator doesn't seem to want to boot
14:20 rubenwardy the x86 one boots, but not the arm64 one
14:24 rubenwardy downloading a new image
14:42 rubenwardy Krock:  Enable developer settings and USB debugging (I assume you've already done this to get logcat?)
14:43 rubenwardy In one terminal, do     adb set-debug-app net.minetest.minetest    and     adb shell am monitor
14:43 rubenwardy in another, do       adb shell am start -D -n net.minetest.minetest/net.minetest.minetest.MainActivity
14:43 rubenwardy should give you GDB
14:43 rubenwardy hmm, maybe    adb shell am monitor --gdb
14:44 rubenwardy in the first terminal, that is
14:45 rubenwardy hmmmm, there's also this article   https://codeseekah.com/2012/02/16/command-line-android-development-debugging/
14:48 rubenwardy There's a reason why studios have loads and loads of Android devices
14:55 Krock trying...
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15:03 rubenwardy hmm, would be good to use release with debug symbols on Android production so we can get nice stack traces
15:03 rubenwardy this PR should fix all the Java crashes
15:03 rubenwardy but also add some new ones
15:10 Krock after starting I only get "** Activity starting: net.minetest.minetest", nothing else. using 1) adb shell && am set-debug-app net.minetest.minetest && am monitor,  2) am start -D -n  <...>
15:14 rubenwardy I have no idea then
15:14 rubenwardy maybe try uninstalling and installing the APK again?
15:14 Krock also for gdb.. no clue on hoe to use that
15:14 Krock *how
15:15 rubenwardy ohhh
15:15 rubenwardy wait
15:15 rubenwardy The app version code will be the same as 5.4.1
15:15 rubenwardy so you need to clear the sharedPreferences before opening the app
15:16 Krock I never had 5.4.1 installed
15:16 rubenwardy in Recent Apps > Minetest App > Storage > Clear storage
15:16 rubenwardy oh nevermind
15:16 Krock last version was 5.1.0
15:16 Krock gonna check whether master works
15:19 rubenwardy #11417
15:19 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/11417 -- Revoking permission at MainActivity crashes app
15:19 rubenwardy sure, you found a crash. But why would you do that?
15:19 Krock just don't do that
15:20 rubenwardy Minetest won't need that permission on the release after November 2021, so I'm tempted to not bother fixing it
15:21 Krock 5.4.1 works just fine
15:21 Krock same as 5.4.0
15:21 rubenwardy technically, there's no error
15:21 rubenwardy :D
15:22 rubenwardy How sure are you that it was 5.1.0? I do still suspect it's due to the app version check
15:22 Krock because TotalCommander told me so, and that one's accurate according to the tests I just did
15:23 Krock gonna do the cleaning steps nonethless. let's see.
15:23 rubenwardy The app should probably check that Minetest and other folders exist, even if it doesn't assert all the files
15:27 Krock I could not find the Storage option you mentioned, but I removed the Minetest directory from the storage and that should do the trick I hope
15:28 rubenwardy no no, the app storage
15:28 rubenwardy Recent apps, press and hold icon, app info, storage, clear storage
15:28 rubenwardy the Minetest directory should exist for testing
15:28 rubenwardy as part of the migration process
15:31 Krock I feel kinda stupid. Press&hold says that the app does not support dual-window mode. Anyway. found it in the system settings (after re-installing an older version to avoid version number conflicts)
15:31 Krock oh lol. click and hold the app screen.... anyway. til.
15:33 Krock hmm. showed a short "Loading" blue screen and crashed after a second after allowing sd card access
15:33 Krock basically the same as before
15:35 rubenwardy oh perhaps it's the C++ crashing
15:35 rubenwardy that might explain no error message
15:35 rubenwardy the NDK is terrible for debugging
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16:05 Krock not even a debug.txt file
16:06 Krock sucks
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18:11 Krock with some symlink trickery #11287 works well without an additional installation step. that's definitely not how it was indented but the workflow does not change
18:11 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/11287 -- Take advantage of IrrlichtMt target by JosiahWI
18:12 sfan5 heh
18:12 sfan5 I was close to suggesting such a thing in my comment
18:12 Krock haha
18:14 Krock https://gist.github.com/SmallJoker/ddd4181f5d7b2cee4c5348fbf8bed411 fwiw
18:21 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> lol abuse FTW
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18:33 MTDiscord <Jordach> i don't want to install another systemwide library for a single game
18:34 Krock @Jordach  cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=bin/ && make -j && make install    installs it locally
18:34 sfan5 nah, easier
18:34 MTDiscord <Jordach> why can't i just use the standard .a over a complex and likely to break
18:34 sfan5 clone irrlicht to lib/irrlichtmt and it will work automatically
18:34 MTDiscord <Jordach> solution which is clear from an outside perspective is overkill
18:37 MTDiscord <Jordach> and then it's very silly to install it systemwide because now that we've forked irrlicht, any changes require the whole shebang to be updated again
18:37 MTDiscord <Jordach> whereas run in place makes it far less painful
18:44 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> The lib/irrlichtmt solution is really simple and quite robust, as sfan5 pointed out.
18:44 MTDiscord <Jordach> and that requires the potential of system specific scripts
18:45 MTDiscord <Jordach> might work on Linux derivatives but not BSD
18:45 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> ...?
18:45 MTDiscord <Jordach> > that's definitely not how it was indented but the workflow does not change
18:46 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> I think he was symlinking to the Irrlicht directory, although I didn't read his script.
18:48 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> I fail to see any difference between using library/header variables and using a path to an install location that would break things that wouldn't have broken before.
18:50 MTDiscord <Jordach> your PR makes it sound that's no longer an option
18:50 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> Using library/header variables would no longer be an option; instead you would give 1 path to where the library/headers were put.
18:51 MTDiscord <Jordach> also minetest has never required the cmake -S option
18:52 rubenwardy Related comment regarding settingtypes.txt and #11463: I think that settingtypes.txt should be deprecated, and removed from builtin/. Instead, comments in minetest.conf.example should be used to document the types and such, and C++ should read from that
18:52 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/11463 -- Add many limits to settingtypes by Wuzzy2
18:52 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> -S isn't required.
18:52 sfan5 C++ parsing a file that is primarily meant to be human readable sounds like awful idea
18:52 rubenwardy hmmm
18:52 rubenwardy it sucks having two different files like we have now
18:53 rubenwardy could be a problem if the user modifies the example file
18:53 sfan5 that's one the reasons I was thinking yea
18:53 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> BTW Jordach, SDL is set up the same way Irrlicht is now, although I believe it supports using library/header variables (although there's really no reason to).
18:56 MTDiscord <Jordach> that said, for me to produce valid macOS and iOS binaries of Minetest i have a hard requirement of run in place building
18:56 MTDiscord <Jordach> especially the irrlicht library
18:56 sfan5 so do the windows builds
18:56 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> Irrlicht can be staticly linked, a .a
18:57 sfan5 and windows support is not going anywhere
18:57 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> This PR doesn't change static/dynamic linking requirements at all, really.
18:57 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> Except for transitive dependencies, now.
18:57 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> Just build Irrlicht as a static library; it will be staticly linked and should work exactly like it did before.
18:58 MTDiscord <Jordach> i should clarify i do not build shared libraries
18:58 MTDiscord <Jordach> cmake . -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=FALSE
18:58 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> So, what's the issue?
18:59 MTDiscord <Jordach> i just need 1) it to leave libIrrlichtMt.a inside /irrlicht/libs/<os>/libIrrlichtMt.a 2) not interfere with any existing build script
18:59 MTDiscord <Jordach> i don'
19:00 MTDiscord <Jordach> don't wish to be spending another 6 hours arguing with cmake again
19:00 sfan5 you will need to a adjust your build script
19:00 sfan5 however, it will only get simpler. guaranteed.
19:01 MTDiscord <Jordach> trust me when i say this i'm using some arcane as hell jank in cmake to get ancient OSX versions working
19:01 Krock rubenwardy: but then people might remove that file and wonder why the limits are no longer working. .example would have to be a requirement, even for servers
19:01 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> Let me help update your build script then; I'll bet it takes < 30 minutes.
19:03 rubenwardy could `#include <minetest.conf.example>`
19:03 rubenwardy starts to get complex then
19:03 MTDiscord <Jordach> https://gist.github.com/Jordach/ee3e0b3cddb7957b86317f747817c9ec
19:04 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> Ok, you weren't kidding. Setting the PNG include dirs by hand? Well, guess what, Minetest no longer links to PNG IIRC, so those can just be deleted.
19:05 MTDiscord <Jordach> it's either use brew which doesn't support multiarch (M1 + x64 fat binaries) or go full gentoo
19:05 MTDiscord <Jordach> i chose the full gentoo route
19:07 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> Oh, it's actually Irrlicht you need to set PNG dirs for.
19:07 MTDiscord <Jordach> with some tweaking this script could theoretically build iOS with some minimal research
19:07 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> Is this on your fork so I can PR a change to it?
19:07 MTDiscord <Jordach> it's a local file i use to build
19:07 sfan5 you can fork on gist too but no PRs
19:10 MTDiscord <Jordach> fun fact, i can build minetestserver on iOS but not regular minetest since i can't currently find the location of the ES2 drivers
19:10 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> Hmm, this script actually doesn't use the Irrlicht CMake for the Universal build.
19:11 MTDiscord <Jordach> it does
19:11 MTDiscord <Jordach> running the file command on the resultant library would only display one arch
19:11 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> huh
19:13 MTDiscord <Jordach> once i figure out the required cmake args for iOS specifics i can add onto this script to manage iOS builds
19:15 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> https://gist.github.com/JosiahWI/39e7cb97fd49091c14fda3991f6457a1
19:16 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> Should be done, but hard to say without having a Mac to test on. Maybe I'll recruit one of my friends with a Mac to test it out...
19:21 MTDiscord <Jordach> curious line https://gist.github.com/JosiahWI/39e7cb97fd49091c14fda3991f6457a1#file-build_mt_version-sh-L25
19:21 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> The i was in there in your version, too.
19:22 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> That's why I was confused about whether you were using CMake.
19:22 MTDiscord <Jordach> that should be cmake .
19:22 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> I've been staring at that i for the past few minutes trying to figure out why it's there.
19:22 MTDiscord <Jordach> might have had it highlighted from a copy paste and hit a key
19:22 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> Well, fixed now.
19:23 MTDiscord <Jordach> also - macOS does not have directories like the usual install directories
19:23 MTDiscord <Jordach> /usr/ is a fake directory and isn't actually existant
19:24 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> This script won't use any "root" paths.
19:24 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> It just uses a bin/ directory inside your irrlicht clone.
19:25 MTDiscord <josiah_wi> Typo. It's supposed to be CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. Let me fix.
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