Package libnixmain and libnixcmd with Meson

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>

src/libmain/.version

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+../../.version

src/libmain/meson.build

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+project('nix-main', 'cpp',
+  version : files('.version'),
+  default_options : [
+    'cpp_std=c++2a',
+    # TODO(Qyriad): increase the warning level
+    'warning_level=1',
+    'debug=true',
+    'optimization=2',
+    'errorlogs=true', # Please print logs for tests that fail
+  ],
+  meson_version : '>= 1.1',
+  license : 'LGPL-2.1-or-later',
+)
+
+cxx = meson.get_compiler('cpp')
+
+subdir('build-utils-meson/deps-lists')
+
+configdata = configuration_data()
+
+deps_private_maybe_subproject = [
+]
+deps_public_maybe_subproject = [
+  dependency('nix-util'),
+  dependency('nix-store'),
+]
+subdir('build-utils-meson/subprojects')
+
+
+pubsetbuf_test = '''
+#include <iostream>
+
+using namespace std;
+
+char buf[1024];
+
+int main() {
+  cerr.rdbuf()->pubsetbuf(buf, sizeof(buf));
+}
+'''
+
+configdata.set(
+  'HAVE_PUBSETBUF',
+  cxx.compiles(pubsetbuf_test).to_int(),
+  description: 'Optionally used for buffering on standard error'
+)
+
+config_h = configure_file(
+  configuration : configdata,
+  output : 'config-main.hh',
+)
+
+add_project_arguments(
+  # TODO(Qyriad): Yes this is how the autoconf+Make system did it.
+  # It would be nice for our headers to be idempotent instead.
+  '-include', 'config-util.hh',
+  '-include', 'config-store.hh',
+  '-include', 'config-main.hh',
+  language : 'cpp',
+)
+
+subdir('build-utils-meson/diagnostics')
+
+sources = files(
+  'common-args.cc',
+  'loggers.cc',
+  'progress-bar.cc',
+  'shared.cc',
+)
+
+if host_machine.system() != 'windows'
+  sources += files(
+    'unix/stack.cc',
+  )
+endif
+
+include_dirs = [include_directories('.')]
+
+headers = [config_h] + files(
+  'common-args.hh',
+  'loggers.hh',
+  'progress-bar.hh',
+  'shared.hh',
+)
+
+this_library = library(
+  'nixmain',
+  sources,
+  dependencies : deps_public + deps_private + deps_other,
+  prelink : true, # For C++ static initializers
+  install : true,
+)
+
+install_headers(headers, subdir : 'nix', preserve_path : true)
+
+libraries_private = []
+
+subdir('build-utils-meson/export')

src/libmain/package.nix

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+{ lib
+, stdenv
+, mkMesonDerivation
+, releaseTools
+
+, meson
+, ninja
+, pkg-config
+
+, nix-util
+, nix-store
+
+# Configuration Options
+
+, versionSuffix ? ""
+}:
+
+let
+  inherit (lib) fileset;
+
+  version = lib.fileContents ./.version + versionSuffix;
+in
+
+mkMesonDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "nix-main";
+  inherit version;
+
+  workDir = ./.;
+  fileset = fileset.unions [
+    ../../build-utils-meson
+    ./build-utils-meson
+    ../../.version
+    ./.version
+    ./meson.build
+    (fileset.fileFilter (file: file.hasExt "cc") ./.)
+    (fileset.fileFilter (file: file.hasExt "hh") ./.)
+  ];
+
+  outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    meson
+    ninja
+    pkg-config
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    nix-util
+    nix-store
+  ];
+
+  preConfigure =
+    # "Inline" .version so it's not a symlink, and includes the suffix.
+    # Do the meson utils, without modification.
+    ''
+      chmod u+w ./.version
+      echo ${version} > ../../.version
+    '';
+
+  env = lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.isLinux && !(stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic && stdenv.system == "aarch64-linux")) {
+    LDFLAGS = "-fuse-ld=gold";
+  };
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  separateDebugInfo = !stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic;
+
+  # TODO `releaseTools.coverageAnalysis` in Nixpkgs needs to be updated
+  # to work with `strictDeps`.
+  strictDeps = true;
+
+  hardeningDisable = lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic "pie";
+
+  meta = {
+    platforms = lib.platforms.unix ++ lib.platforms.windows;
+  };
+
+})