Bug 604702

In fact, here is the code from libtiff that works around the problem without breaking libjpeg:


/*
   The windows RPCNDR.H file defines boolean, but defines it with the
   unsigned char size.  You should compile JPEG library using appropriate
   definitions in jconfig.h header, but many users compile library in wrong
   way. That causes errors of the following type:

   "JPEGLib: JPEG parameter struct mismatch: library thinks size is 432,
   caller expects 464"

   For such users we wil fix the problem here. See install.doc file from
   the JPEG library distribution for details.
*/

/* Define "boolean" as unsigned char, not int, per Windows custom. */
#if defined(__WIN32__) && !defined(__MINGW32__)
# ifndef __RPCNDR_H__            /* don't conflict if rpcndr.h already read */
   typedef unsigned char boolean;
# endif
# define HAVE_BOOLEAN            /* prevent jmorecfg.h from redefining it */
#endif

#include "jpeglib.h"
#include "jerror.h"

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Setting version to rawhide.

I would like to switch from libjpeg7 to libjpeg-turbo like was done in native Fedora packages.  libjpeg-turbo upstream is much more responsive and I believe we should be able to fix the boolean problem in an upstreamable manner.

Erik, you said you had mingw-libjpeg-turbo packaged up locally.  Can you post it for review?  I would be happy to review it and help with rebuilds.

unfortunately even libjpeg-turbo seems to be api and binary compatible with libjpeg it's not (we learn it from rhel-6.1 extra packages). so either it's required a large massrebuild or please keep mingw32-libjpeg along with mingw-libjpeg-turbo.

Yes, we would need a large scare rebuild to switch over.  We would also be breaking binary compatibility with this change, because libjpeg7 and libjpeg-turbo have different DLL names. (libjpeg-turbo and libjpeg-6b would have been compatible, but we are already using libjpeg7).

libjpeg 6b:    libjpeg-62.dll
libjpeg 7:     libjpeg-7.dll
libjpeg-turbo: libjpeg-62.dll

So, considering that we'll need a rebuild to switch over, it would also make sense to fix the boolean definition in one go.

in the mean time may be it'd be useful to apply libtiff's patch to the current mingw32-libjpeg...

@Kalev, comment 3: I have a mingw-libjpeg-turbo package ready, but it's already based on the new guidelines (with win64 support). I could put it up for review, but it won't build successfully at the moment because the mingw-w64 toolchain isn't approved in Fedora yet

@Levente, comment 4: It's strange that you encountered an API/ABI difference between libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo. When libjpeg-turbo was introduced in Fedora 14 no rebuilds were necessary at all as can be seen at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/libjpeg-turbo

@Kalev, comment 5: That was also the plan I was having with the mingw-libjpeg-turbo package once the mingw-w64 toolchain gets approved for inclusion in Fedora. A mass rebuild will be required at that time anyway

@Levente, comment 6: The patch mentioned in comment 1 only applies to libtiff. It isn't supposed to work in libjpeg. All packages using libjpeg would have to apply a variant to this patch as it all depends on the headers which get included in c/c++ files which want to use libjpeg headers

The mingw-libjpeg-turbo package has just been put up for review at bug 710101

The mingw-libjpeg-turbo package is now in Fedora and doesn't contain any ugly hacks any more.

Are you okay that we close this bug?

I will test it out using OpenSlide, which is what had problems before. But looking promising so far.

No more issues reported, closing bug