using mercurial instead of TortoiseHg

[jb_alvarado]

Hello everybody, I hope this is the right place for that question. In the past I use TortoiseHg to clone the repo from x265 and that works fine. But now I will change to the internal mercurial from msys2. I can clone with them and pull/update but when I try to configure with cmake it stops with errors, because it doesn't get the version information. On the place where normally the version stays it is this:

x265 version +-

Is there a way to fix that?

Regards! jb_

[Former user]

On the place where normally the version stays it is this: x265 version +-

I have similar trouble. Used dirty solution: just commented this lines in x265/source/CMakeLists.txt

#list(GET VERSION_LIST 0 X265_VERSION_MAJOR)
#list(GET VERSION_LIST 1 X265_VERSION_MINOR)

And manually wrote versions in x265/build/msys/x265.rc

 FILEVERSION    1,1,0,1
 PRODUCTVERSION 1,1,0,1

[jb_alvarado]

Hi den c, thank you for that tip! It is a good idea to do it in that way. But how you now then witch Version you have?

[Former user]

It is a good idea to do it in that way.

Its quick'n'dirty workaround. We should get how to fix this. I suppose ERROR_QUIET in ../cmake/version.cmake should be replaced to ERROR_FILE version_errors.log and after that look what printed there.

And second hint, which helps me. Since mercurial on windows has .bat extension Put this somewhere into cmake/version.cmake:

set(HG_EXECUTABLE "${HG_EXECUTABLE}.bat")

[Former user]

Here patch

--- a/source/cmake/version.cmake        Tue May 20 15:00:21 2014 -0500
+++ b/source/cmake/version.cmake        Wed May 21 01:59:00 2014 +0300
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@
         set(X265_VERSION "${hg_latesttag}+${hg_latesttagdistance}-${hg_id}")
     endif()
 elseif(HG_EXECUTABLE AND EXISTS ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/../.hg)
+       #windows check
+       if(EXISTS "${HG_EXECUTABLE}.bat")
+               set(HG_EXECUTABLE "${HG_EXECUTABLE}.bat")
+       endif()
+       message(STATUS "hg found at ${HG_EXECUTABLE}")
+
     execute_process(COMMAND
         ${HG_EXECUTABLE} log -r. --template "{latesttag}"
         WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}

[Steve Borho]

cmake: detect mercurial source installs on Windows, fixes #56

→ <<cset a1c87ac44989>>

[jb_alvarado]

Ah, the new layout from bitkucket makes me confuse. I had write yesterday on the wrong wall. By me this patch doesn't work because inside of msys2 hg works over a python script(without extension), and this I can not use directly over cmake. Even python /bin/hg will not work. so I found a work around like that:

Here is now my workaround, every time when the build gets update it makes this commands:

sed -i '/set(X265_LATEST_TAG/d' source/cmake/version.cmake
sed -i '/set(X265_TAG_DISTANCE/d' source/cmake/version.cmake
sed -i '/set(HG_REVISION_ID/d' source/cmake/version.cmake

cd .hg

tag=`hg log -r. --template "{latesttag}"`
distance=`hg log -r. --template "{latesttagdistance}"`
node=`hg log -r. --template "{node|short}"`

cd ..

sed -i '/if(X265_LATEST_TAG MATCHES "^r")/i \
set(X265_LATEST_TAG '\"$tag\"') \
set(X265_TAG_DISTANCE '\"$distance\"') \
set(HG_REVISION_ID '\"$node\"')' source/cmake/version.cmake

[jb_alvarado]

forget about this post. Maybe I edit it later again. I was not able to delete them.

[jb_alvarado]

Ok now a different solution, without this bad sed. I wrote my own hg.bat file like that:

@echo off

setlocal
set HG=%~f0

set PYTHONHOME=
set in=%*
set out=%in: {= "{%
set out=%out:} =}" %

%~dp0python2 %~dp0hg %out%

Sadly the input lose by the first two inputs the quotation so I have to do a replacement.