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* C#: Move marshaling logic and generated glue to C#Ignacio Roldán Etcheverry2022-08-221-80/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We will be progressively moving most code to C#. The plan is to only use Mono's embedding APIs to set things at launch. This will make it much easier to later support CoreCLR too which doesn't have rich embedding APIs. Additionally the code in C# is more maintainable and makes it easier to implement new features, e.g.: runtime codegen which we could use to avoid using reflection for marshaling everytime a field, property or method is accessed. SOME NOTES ON INTEROP We make the same assumptions as GDNative about the size of the Godot structures we use. We take it a bit further by also assuming the layout of fields in some cases, which is riskier but let's us squeeze out some performance by avoiding unnecessary managed to native calls. Code that deals with native structs is less safe than before as there's no RAII and copy constructors in C#. It's like using the GDNative C API directly. One has to take special care to free values they own. Perhaps we could use roslyn analyzers to check this, but I don't know any that uses attributes to determine what's owned or borrowed. As to why we maily use pointers for native structs instead of ref/out: - AFAIK (and confirmed with a benchmark) ref/out are pinned during P/Invoke calls and that has a cost. - Native struct fields can't be ref/out in the first place. - A `using` local can't be passed as ref/out, only `in`. Calling a method or property on an `in` value makes a silent copy, so we want to avoid `in`. REGARDING THE BUILD SYSTEM There's no longer a `mono_glue=yes/no` SCons options. We no longer need to build with `mono_glue=no`, generate the glue and then build again with `mono_glue=yes`. We build only once and generate the glue (which is in C# now). However, SCons no longer builds the C# projects for us. Instead one must run `build_assemblies.py`, e.g.: ```sh %godot_src_root%/modules/mono/build_scripts/build_assemblies.py \ --godot-output-dir=%godot_src_root%/bin \ --godot-target=release_debug` ``` We could turn this into a custom build target, but I don't know how to do that with SCons (it's possible with Meson). OTHER NOTES Most of the moved code doesn't follow the C# naming convention and still has the word Mono in the names despite no longer dealing with Mono's embedding APIs. This is just temporary while transitioning, to make it easier to understand what was moved where.
* SCons: Format buildsystem files with psf/blackRémi Verschelde2020-03-301-14/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Configured for a max line length of 120 characters. psf/black is very opinionated and purposely doesn't leave much room for configuration. The output is mostly OK so that should be fine for us, but some things worth noting: - Manually wrapped strings will be reflowed, so by using a line length of 120 for the sake of preserving readability for our long command calls, it also means that some manually wrapped strings are back on the same line and should be manually merged again. - Code generators using string concatenation extensively look awful, since black puts each operand on a single line. We need to refactor these generators to use more pythonic string formatting, for which many options are available (`%`, `format` or f-strings). - CI checks and a pre-commit hook will be added to ensure that future buildsystem changes are well-formatted.
* Mono/C#: Re-structure API solution and GodotTools post-build targetIgnacio Etcheverry2019-12-281-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously we had a placeholder solution called 'Managed' to benefit from tooling while editing the a part of the C# API. Later the bindings generator would create the final 'GodotSharp' solution including these C# files as well as the auto-generated C# API. Now we replaced the 'Managed' solution with the final 'GodotSharp' solution which is no longer auto-generated, and the bindings generator only takes care of the auto-generated C# API. This has the following benefits: - It's less confusing as there will no longer be two versions of the same file (the original and a generated copy of it). Now there's only one. - We no longer need placeholder for auto-generated API classes, like Node or Resource. We used them for benefiting from tooling. Now we can just use the auto-generated API itself. - Simplifies the build system and bindings generator. Removed lot of code that is not needed anymore. Also added a post-build target to the GodotTools project to copy the output to the data dir. This makes it easy to iterate when doing changes to GodotTools, as SCons doesn't have to be executed anymore just to copy these new files.
* Mono/C#: Prevent SCons from building API solutions in parallelIgnacio Etcheverry2019-11-221-1/+11
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* Re-write mono module editor code in C#Ignacio Etcheverry2019-07-051-0/+66
Make the build system automatically build the C# Api assemblies to be shipped with the editor. Make the editor, editor player and debug export templates use Api assemblies built with debug symbols. Always run MSBuild to build the editor tools and Api assemblies when building Godot. Several bugs fixed related to assembly hot reloading and restoring state. Fix StringExtensions internal calls not being registered correctly, resulting in MissingMethodException.