[Tinycc-devel] Building GTK3 with tcc

[Andrey Gursky]

Hi,

while building GTK3 I've stumbled over a tiny issue with 
--export-dynamic. Proposed patch is here [1]. (Sure, in long term it 
would be great to get also a patch upstream to utilize the libtool 
improvement for tcc [2]. But for the upcoming GTK4 one need to patch 
meson anyway.)

There is another issue. tcc doesn't understand gcc's '-C' argument. It 
is needed to generate gobject introspection data. Would you like to add 
it?

And another one in gtk/gtkpapersize.c

const gchar *
gtk_paper_size_get_default (void)
{
  char *locale, *freeme = NULL;
  const char *paper_size;

#if defined(HAVE__NL_PAPER_HEIGHT) && defined(HAVE__NL_PAPER_WIDTH)
  {
    int width = NL_PAPER_GET (_NL_PAPER_WIDTH);   // 
<-------------------
    int height = NL_PAPER_GET (_NL_PAPER_HEIGHT); //

    if (width == 210 && height == 297)
      return GTK_PAPER_NAME_A4;

    if (width == 216 && height == 279)
      return GTK_PAPER_NAME_LETTER;
  }
#endif

--------------------> error: lvalue expected

Regarding performance. Configured with CFLAGS='-g' make finishes in 
aboud 11 minutes, while gcc does it in about 15 min 43 sec. Shouldn't 
tcc be at least an order of magnitude faster or I'm missing something?

Thanks,
Andrey

[1] 
http://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git/commit/91bdb5a4a32d8b2c994ebaeaa330807e72693d4b
[2] 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2014-07/msg00001.html