mingw: rely on MSYS2's metadata instead of hard-coding it

MSYS2 defines some helpful environment variables, e.g. `MSYSTEM`. There
is code in Git for Windows to ensure that that `MSYSTEM` variable is
set, hard-coding a default.

However, the existing solution jumps through hoops to reconstruct the
proper default, and is even incomplete doing so, as we found out when we
extended it to support CLANGARM64.

This is absolutely unnecessary because there is already a perfectly
valid `MSYSTEM` value we can use at build time. This is even true when
building the MINGW32 variant on a MINGW64 system because `makepkg-mingw`
will override the `MSYSTEM` value as per the `MINGW_ARCH` array.

The same is equally true for the `/mingw64`, `/mingw32` and
`/clangarm64` prefix: those values are already available via the
`MINGW_PREFIX` environment variable, and we just need to pass that
setting through.

Only when `MINGW_PREFIX` is not set (as is the case in Git for Windows'
minimal SDK, where only `MSYSTEM` is guaranteed to be set correctly), we
use as fall-back the top-level directory whose name is the down-cased
value of the `MSYSTEM` variable.

Incidentally, this also broadens the support to all the configurations
supported by the MSYS2 project, i.e. clang64 & ucrt64, too.

Note: This keeps the same, hard-coded MSYSTEM platform support for CMake
as before, but drops it for Meson (because it is unclear how Meson could
do this in a more flexible manner).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Author: dscho

config.mak.uname

@@ -452,14 +452,8 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows)
 	GIT_VERSION := $(GIT_VERSION).MSVC
 	pathsep = ;
 	# Assume that this is built in Git for Windows' SDK
-        ifeq (MINGW32,$(MSYSTEM))
-		prefix = /mingw32
-        else
-                ifeq (CLANGARM64,$(MSYSTEM))
-			prefix = /clangarm64
-                else
-			prefix = /mingw64
-                endif
+        ifneq (,$(MSYSTEM))
+		prefix = $(MINGW_PREFIX)
         endif
 	# Prepend MSVC 64-bit tool-chain to PATH.
 	#
@@ -744,6 +738,10 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW)
 		BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--dynamicbase
         endif
         ifneq (,$(MSYSTEM))
+                ifeq ($(MINGW_PREFIX),$(filter-out /%,$(MINGW_PREFIX)))
+			# Override if empty or does not start with a slash
+			MINGW_PREFIX := /$(shell echo '$(MSYSTEM)' | tr A-Z a-z)
+                endif
 		prefix = $(MINGW_PREFIX)
 		HOST_CPU = $(patsubst %-w64-mingw32,%,$(MINGW_CHOST))
 		BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable

contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -256,7 +256,14 @@ if(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "Windows")
 				_CONSOLE DETECT_MSYS_TTY STRIP_EXTENSION=".exe"  NO_SYMLINK_HEAD UNRELIABLE_FSTAT
 				NOGDI OBJECT_CREATION_MODE=1 __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0
 				OVERRIDE_STRDUP MMAP_PREVENTS_DELETE USE_WIN32_MMAP
-				HAVE_WPGMPTR ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET HAVE_RTLGENRANDOM)
+				HAVE_WPGMPTR HAVE_RTLGENRANDOM)
+	if(CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM STREQUAL "x64")
+		add_compile_definitions(ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET="MINGW64" MINGW_PREFIX="mingw64")
+	elseif(CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM STREQUAL "arm64")
+		add_compile_definitions(ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET="CLANGARM64" MINGW_PREFIX="clangarm64")
+	elseif(CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM STREQUAL "x86")
+		add_compile_definitions(ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET="MINGW32" MINGW_PREFIX="mingw32")
+	endif()
 	list(APPEND compat_SOURCES
 		compat/mingw.c
 		compat/winansi.c

meson.build

@@ -1297,7 +1297,6 @@ elif host_machine.system() == 'windows'
 
   libgit_c_args += [
     '-DDETECT_MSYS_TTY',
-    '-DENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET',
     '-DNATIVE_CRLF',
     '-DNOGDI',
     '-DNO_POSIX_GOODIES',
@@ -1307,6 +1306,18 @@ elif host_machine.system() == 'windows'
     '-D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0',
   ]
 
+  msystem = get_option('msystem')
+  if msystem != ''
+    mingw_prefix = get_option('mingw_prefix')
+    if mingw_prefix == ''
+      mingw_prefix = '/' + msystem.to_lower()
+    endif
+    libgit_c_args += [
+      '-DENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET="' + msystem + '"',
+      '-DMINGW_PREFIX="' + mingw_prefix + '"'
+    ]
+  endif
+
   libgit_dependencies += compiler.find_library('ntdll')
   libgit_include_directories += 'compat/win32'
   if compiler.get_id() == 'msvc'

meson_options.txt

@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ option('runtime_prefix', type: 'boolean', value: false,
   description: 'Resolve ancillary tooling and support files relative to the location of the runtime binary instead of hard-coding them into the binary.')
 option('sane_tool_path', type: 'array', value: [],
   description: 'An array of paths to pick up tools from in case the normal tools are broken or lacking.')
+option('msystem', type: 'string', value: '',
+  description: 'Fall-back on Windows when MSYSTEM is not set.')
+option('mingw_prefix', type: 'string', value: '',
+  description: 'Fall-back on Windows when MINGW_PREFIX is not set.')
 
 # Build information compiled into Git and other parts like documentation.
 option('build_date', type: 'string', value: '',