Command line tool to download the configurations

[matlo]

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[CodeOhms]

Hi Matlo,
If you are still interested I can make such an application for you. Should it be a stand alone program, or should it be apart of the 'gimx' command line tool?

I have a few queries to make sure I'm on the right track. Looking at the OnMenuGetConfigs method seems to have the code for doing this in the GIU. It seems I would just need to strip out some for loops that - I think - handle the GUI and simply use the configupdater class. Instead the gist of it will simply be:

1. Get the config directory in a string variable.
2. Get the list of configs from configupdater().getconfiglist( ) method. And get the initial status of the download as well.
3. Call configupdater().getconfig( ) to retrieve the actual config file.
4. Finish by calling these two functions: cleanDownload(), readConfigs(). I assume the first removes temporary stuff and the second checks to make sure the config is okay.

[matlo]

Hi,
Yes, I'm still interested. I think it should be handled in a separate binary (for example "gimx-download"). In addition to manual download, it may allow automatic config download based on the plugged in devices, like performed in launcherFrame::autoConfig().

[CodeOhms]

Okay. I'll add the autoConfig for the second release.

[CodeOhms]

I apologise, but I'm having a lot of difficulty trying to compile the project on Windows. Currently I'm using Eclipse to write in C++. Make complains that command 'cc' wasn't found - this was when I tried to compile using make in Cygwin. I'll try and develop it on my RPi as this project seems more geared towards Linux.

[matlo]

For Windows the current build system is based on Msys2/MinGW64:
https://gimx.fr/wiki/index.php?title=Development_on_Windows

[CodeOhms]

I tried the instructions above, but it doesn't cover all the issues I'm having. I followed each step, using the bash scripts to install and build. However, I still had to download some dependencies myself. Now I cannot link the main project as printf is undefined to the linker.
Looking around I found some other undefined functions called 'libintl_snprintf'. I tried installing wxWidgets to see if it needed the intl.h from there. Unfortunately, nothing has worked.

Sorry to bother you. I try some fresh approaches tomorrow after work.

[matlo]

GIMX is not meant to be compiled with anything other that msys2/mingw64. Porting it to any other build system probably requires a huge amount of work. It seems a waste of time to me.

I just updated the build scripts so that it can work with latest msys2 version. Compilation throws a lot of warnings but seems successful.

[CodeOhms]

Thanks Matlo. The hot fix works. I can now compile in the suggested environment.

[CodeOhms]

Hi Matlo,
just a quick update before going on holiday for a week. Here is the work I've done so far https://github.com/CodeOhms/GIMX/tree/master/gimxFileDownloader.
The only thing that remains for the basic version being complete is I need to figure out why -3 status is returned when trying to download the config list.

I had to recreate the progress_callback_configupdater() function to work with the terminal, among a few other functions. I simply remapped the callback functionality, exposed by the class configupdater, to go through my TUI front end classes.

However, I think I'm missing something when I ported this function to work in a TUI environment.
The line where I invoke the configupdater::getconfiglist() function is in 'configDownload.cpp' line 97.

[matlo]

Hi CodeOhms,
Thanks a lot! I'll test it as soon as possible. Once you are satisfied with your code, please make a merge request.

[CodeOhms]

Hi again,
I still haven't managed to fix the downloading issue. I dug deeper in the code and found that CURLE_SSL_CACERT_BADFILE is returned within Downloader::download().
It occurs on line 232 with the call CURLcode res = curl_easy_perform(m_curl_handle);.

Here is a screenshot of the discovery in gdb.exe

I've tried running my application with admin privileges to no avail.

[CodeOhms]

I've almost finished the basics. Just polishing it and getting rid of obvious bugs. Will send pull request when done.

[matlo]

Thanks again for your work on this. I'll try to integrate it for version 9.

[CodeOhms]

#622 this is the latest version of the pull request