made some good progress on the repro gui builds today. I'm down to getting the qtplugin linking right.

\o/

🤙

Yay!

TheCharlatan: i'm working on cmake linux static builds, finally built static gui with cmake today

didn't PR the cmake patches yet

sweet

do you plan to use bitcoin's qt receipt?

i briefly checked it, looks good, though we have to patch it a bit, for example, we need opengl support

and dynamic opengl on win

and statically linked openssl

though this is something we can patch later caus getting all the tweaks right will take some measurable amout of work

that said, even getting GUI bullt with depends with any config (i.e no opengl and no static opensll, etc.) will be a decent progress as a starting point

TheCharlatan: on the other hand, shoud we stick with depens for reproducible builds?

am asking because i can work on implementing a Dockerfile that will do GUI Linux static builds

will be based on Ubuntu 16.04

and it will build the qt with all the needed flags right in the container and the use it to build the GUI with cmake

Could this be used for reproducible builds?

I checked gitian, seems it is okay with Ubuntu as a base system. Though am not sure would it work with the docker image i mentioned above

selsta: Where can I find your gpg pubkey?

jonathancross: github.com/selsta.gpg

That recipe is one of my few bitcoin core contributions, so yes I'll use it :P

I should PR it somewhere

I'm already modyfying it heavily.

yeah sure, if you build in docker right now, it's probably going to be reproducible. However, we'd want to control our libraries and support all platforms, so I won't spend time on that.

TheCharlatan: "That recipe is one of my few bitcoin core contributions, so yes I'll use it :P" <- hah, have to correcy myself then

TheCharlatan's receipt, not bitcoin's one

"if you build in docker right now" -> nope, i'm building on real system, don't have a dockerfile at the moment

"so I won't spend time on that" -> gotchat, sounds like not the way we will follow

You can also do a gitian build right now without a Dockerfile, but you'd need to write a gitian descriptor with all the dependencies included.

xiphon: "and dynamic opengl on win" is this some weird licensing thing, or does qt just not support it?

<TheCharlatan "That recipe is one of my few bit"> selsta: thanks. Can I spam it to a few keyservers?

selsta: * upload your pgp key to a few keyservers that is.

TheCharlatan: nope, that is because we want to use system-provided opengl renderer and fallback to software renderer (opengl32sw.dll we ship with GUI on Win) when the system doesn't provide an appropriate opengl renderer

that's why we use "dynamic opengl"

ah I see, thanks

Is that currently handled through windeployqt?

nope

jsut manually copying the same opengl32sw.dll to the release archive

and that dll is provided from where?

it is mesa renderer

but is it pre-compiled, or do you build it yourself?

"do you build it yourself" -> i believe we are using precompiled library

jonathancross: monero-project/monero #6159

xiphon: Thanks.

I gave the Mac GUI a quick test (send / recieve TX, Tor, settings, etc)

Looks good to me.

tjonathancross: thanks