HFS timestamp resolution is 1 second, which means that we can't distinguish
files modified again within 1 second. This means that this test will fail more
often the faster we make mtouch, so add a forced sleep to make sure we don't
do things faster than the file system can keep track of.
Performance tests
-----------------
This is for a new watchOS extension project, built for release.
* The default (currently -O2) optimizations: 41s ( baseline ) 30.027.060 bytes ( baseline )
* All optimizations disabled (`--llvm-opt=all=`): 17s (-24s = -59%) 32.978.312 bytes (+2.951.252 = +10%)
* Optimized for size (`--llvm-opt=all=-Os`): 36s ( -5s = -12%) 28.617.408 bytes (-1.409.652 = -5%)
* Optimized for more size (`--llvm-opt=all=-Oz`): 35s ( -6s = -15%) 28.601.016 bytes (-1.426.044 = -5%)
* Optimized slightly (`--llvm-opt=all=-O1`): 35s ( -6s = -15%) 28.666.556 bytes (-1.360.504 = -5%)
* Optimized a lot (`--llvm-opt=all=-O3`): 41s ( 0s = 0%) 30.403.996 bytes (+ 376.936 = +1%)
Conclusions
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* The fastest build by far (less than twice as fast) is if optimizations are
disabled, but this adds a 10% size penalty (~3 MB in this test case),
compared to the baseline, and 15% size penalty (4.3 MB) compared to -Oz.
* -Oz seems to have the best overall results: at least as fast as any other
optimized build, and the smallest app as well.
Caveats
-------
Some optimizations might not work the AOT compiled code. The resulting
binaries have not been tested.
Event sequence:
* mtouch is executed with the linker disabled.
* The linker pipeline copies all input assemblies (since the linker is
disabled the assemblies don't change) into the PreBuild directory. This will
keep the original timestamps of the input assemblies.
* mtouch is executed again, when none of the input assemblies changed.
* The linker pipeline will re-execute, because it will see that at least one
of the input assemblies (at least the .exe) is newer than at least one of
the assemblies in the PreBuild directory (usually a framework assembly,
because those have the original timestamp from their install location).
Fix:
Touch all the assemblies in the PreBuild directory after the linker pipeline
executes the first time. This way the second time mtouch is executed, it will
find that all assemblies in the PreBuild directory have timestamps later than
all the input assemblies, so it will load the cached linked assemblies,
instead of re-executing the linker pipeline.
* [mtouch] Always require a SDK version when building.
Technically it was required before too, but the error messages were non-optimal:
it could for instance complain that the user is using an iOS framework that
was introduced in iOS 2.0.
* [mtouch tests] Rewrite MT0060 and MT0061 tests to use MTouchTool.
This makes sure we pass --sdk to mtouch (which MTouchTool does by default), so
that we don't run into MT0025 before the errors we're testing for.
The BundleId property is used by the code that generates the mSYM directory,
but its value was always the default value 'com.yourcompany.sample' instead of
looked up in the app's Info.plist.
So fix the BundleId property to do the expected.
Also fix the mSYM test (SymbolicationData) to actually test mSYM stuff (it was
partially disabled when we disabled automatic mSYM generation for C8, and
never re-enabled), and port it to the new and better test syntax, and add a
few more asserts to check the manifest.xml generation.
-lsqlite3 is a linker flag, not a file to be linked with, so when
automatically determining that we need to pass -lsqlite3 we need to put it in
the right list of linker information.
Otherwise we may end up passing `-force_load -lsqlite3` to the linker (if the
assembly's ForceLoad flag is set), which won't compile.
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=49220
dontlink/64-bit release times out on our Sierra bots, so try to bump the
timeout to see if this is working on other bots because those other bots are
faster.
* [jenkins] Add support for enabling device builds using labels.
* [xharness] Give the iOS MSBuild tests 30 minutes to finish.
* [mtouch tests] Give the BuildTestProject 10 minutes to compile each test case.
Wrench bots build the dontlink test in ~3m40, but that's apparently not enough
for the Jenkins bots (slower bots?), which time out the test after 5 minutes.
So double the timeout to 10 minutes, which will hopefully give the Jenkins
bots enough time to run the test to completion.
Convert MT1016 and MT1017 to newer test syntax, and at the same time change
them to not disable the managed linker.
For these tests it doesn't matter if they're linked or not, but linking is
much faster (20s vs 82s for both tests).
In 7c6d04f1 the code to create the NOTICE file was simplified, and the new
implementation is writing to a temporary file and then replacing the existing
file.
This makes the scenario that MT1017 was testing (failure if a readonly NOTICE
file already exists) go away, since we don't write to the existing file
anymore (so the build succeeds).
Earlier versions of Xamarin Studio stored an invalid http message handler in
watchOS project files, which would cause a build error. In addition Xamarin
Studio removed the UI to set the http message handler (since only one value is
valid), which meant that the user had to edit the project file by hand to get
around this build error.
So make it a warning instead (and document what the user has to do to fix the
warning).
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=46552
Update mdb files even if the corresponding assembly didn't change, because the
mdb can change even if the assembly didn't (if whitespace was modified in the
source code, causing code lines to move).
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=39535
Native libraries are already linked into the dylib for the binding assembly,
which means that if we also link it into the main executable, the native code
ends up twice in the app (which is bad for many reasons).
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42473
The container app may not reference the same third-party frameworks as
extensions, which means that we must make sure the extension's frameworks are
also included in the app bundle.
So when building extensions save a list of all third-party frameworks, and
then read that list and include those frameworks when building the main app.
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=45800
This makes it possible to set linker flags per assembly:
[assembly: LinkWith (LinkerFlags = "-lsqlite3")]
Which is required when incremental builds is enabled and a particular assembly
needs special linker flags (because we don't propagate the global -gcc_flags
to each dylib we build when doing incremental builds).
Also add an option to set the dlsym mode for an assembly (using the LinkWith
attribute).
* [mtouch/tests] Add TimingTests
- New MLaunchTool.
- AppLaunchTime (mlaunch): time to launch an application on the simulators.
How it works: we first open the simulator by launching a dummy app. This allows us to detect if there are any launch watchdogs.
Therefore, for consistency, all measurements are done with the simulator already open.
In the case of the AppLaunchTime test, we build the app with the default config and launch it. It's automatically killed by the simulator
because it does not have a valid entry point but this is fine because it also kills the process and lets us stop the stopwatch.
We then simply log the time performance.
In 9d4be4c we started building fat applications when building for device in
our test projects. That causes the BuildTestProject to take twice as long,
thus hitting a 5 min timeout value, causing the test to fail.
So change the test to the previous behavior: we were only building test
projects for ARM64 previously, so do that.
Fix NullReferenceException in PInvoke wrapper generation when incremental
builds are enabled and the linker didn't run because cached results were
found.
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44763
* [tests] Remove Classic SDK tests.
* Remove XI/Classic support.
This also means we can remove support for the legacy registrars.
* [monotouch-test] Remove legacy registrar tests.
* [tests/mtouch] Remove Classic tests (and legacy registrar logic).
* [tests/scripted] Fix tests to reference Xamarin.iOS.dll.
Rolf Bjarne Kvinge
Vincent Dondain
Sebastien Pouliot
Sebastien Pouliot
Manuel de la Pena