This adds MSVC builds built on Linux using wine. This requires some
settings of tools and flags because the autotools support for MSVC is
naturally somewhat limited.
The advantage of this approach is that it is compatible with our
existing CI scripts, so there's no need to write a Windows CI script
(in PowerShell or similar). If we want to test building and running on
Windows native (e.g., as supported by Cirrus CI) we could still do this
in the future.
Another advantage of this approach is that contributors can simply use
the docker image if they need a MSVC installation in a non-Windows
environment.
This commit also improves the Dockerfile by grouping RUN commands
according to Docker docs:
https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/dockerfile_best-practices/#run
7dfceceea6 build: Remove #undef hack for ASM in the precomputation programs (Tim Ruffing)
bb36fe9be0 ci: Test `make precomp` (Tim Ruffing)
d94a37a20c build: Remove CC_FOR_BUILD stuff (Tim Ruffing)
ad63bb4c29 build: Prebuild and distribute ecmult_gen table (Tim Ruffing)
ac49361ed0 prealloc: Get rid of manual memory management for prealloc contexts (Tim Ruffing)
6573c08f65 ecmult_gen: Tidy precomputed file and save space (Tim Ruffing)
5eba83f17c ecmult_gen: Precompute tables for all values of ECMULT_GEN_PREC_BITS (Tim Ruffing)
fdb33dd122 refactor: Make PREC_BITS a parameter of ecmult_gen_build_prec_table (Tim Ruffing)
a4875e30a6 refactor: Move default callbacks to util.h (Tim Ruffing)
4c94c55bce doc: Remove obsolete hint for valgrind stack size (Tim Ruffing)
5106226991 exhaustive_tests: Fix with ecmult_gen table with custom generator (Tim Ruffing)
e1a76530db refactor: Make generator a parameter of ecmult_gen_create_prec_table (Tim Ruffing)
9ad09f6911 refactor: Rename program that generates static ecmult_gen table (Tim Ruffing)
8ae18f1ab3 refactor: Rename file that contains static ecmult_gen table (Tim Ruffing)
00d2fa116e ecmult_gen: Make code consistent with comment (Tim Ruffing)
3b0c2185ea ecmult_gen: Simplify ecmult_gen context after making table static (Tim Ruffing)
e43ba02cfc refactor: Decouple table generation and ecmult_gen context (Tim Ruffing)
22dc2c0a0d ecmult_gen: Move table creation to new file and force static prec (Tim Ruffing)
Pull request description:
This resolves#893, resolves#692 (and also resolvesbitcoin/bitcoin#22854).
- [x] Extract table generation to separate function in separate file (to be used by generation script and exhaustive tests)
- [x] Tidy up
- [x] Remove code that deals with non-static tables
- [x] Make functions that need ecmult_gen not depend on signing context
- [x] Rename stuff to make it fit the new structure and consistent with how we hande verification tables (#956)
- [x] Fix exhaustive tests
- [x] Make table generation function take generator as input
- [x] Overwrite the static tables with a table with custom generator in exhaustive tests
- [x] Overhaul script that generates table files
- [x] Make table generation function take PREC_BITS as input (I have some code already, just not yet in this branch)
- [x] Change generation script to generate three tables (for all three values of ECMULT_GEN_PREC_BITS)
- [x] Ship pre-built tables
- [x] Add pregenerated table file to repo
- [x] Remove generation of table file from build process (like in #956)
- [x] Remove left-over stuff (e.g., detecting a compiler running on the build machine) from build system
- [x] Final cleanups (copyright headers, commit, messages, etc.)
- [ ] (separate PR:) Make sure link-time optimization remove corresponding static tables (and code) when no signing/verifcation function is called
- [ ] (separate PR:) Compile precomputation as a separate object file and link it (https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/988#issuecomment-977813538)
- [ ] (separate PR:) Document the backwards-compatible API changes made in this PR and in #956.
- [ ] Maybe deprecate the static context
ACKs for top commit:
sipa:
ACK 7dfceceea6
robot-dreams:
ACK 7dfceceea6 (based on range-diff between 56284c7d44c0ed46e636588bfbf6c403b7dfa6c1 and 7dfceceea6)
Tree-SHA512: 6efb3f36f05efe3b79bbd877881fe1409f71fd6488d24c811b2e77d9f053bed78670dd1dcbb42ad780458a51c4ffa36de9cd6567271b22041dc7a122ceb677c5
The experiment of using Nix Shell was not really successful. Most
notably, Nix uses a bunch of wrapper scripts around compilers, which
make the build much less "pure". This may be useful but it's exactly
not what we want for CI. In particular, this resulted in gcc being used
for the "clang" builds because a wrapper script redefined the CC env
variable.
This now builds a single docker image (Debian) for all architectures
that we test in CI on Linux.
Pieter Wuille
Jonas Nick
Tim Ruffing
Elichai Turkel
siv2r