Meson: try to find udis86 through pkgconfig, fallback to subproject

Only the fork provides a .pc file, so there's no risk of linking the wrong
lib version. If pkg-config can't find it (most cases), fall back to using
the subproject through the wrap file.

meson.build

@@ -43,10 +43,6 @@ xcb_xfixes_dep = dependency('xcb-xfixes', required: get_option('xwayland'))
 
 gio_dep = dependency('gio-2.0', required: true)
 
-cmake = import('cmake')
-udis = cmake.subproject('udis86')
-udis86 = udis.dependency('libudis86')
-
 if not xcb_dep.found()
   add_project_arguments('-DNO_XWAYLAND', language: 'cpp')
 endif

nix/default.nix

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
   pkgconf,
   makeWrapper,
   meson,
-  cmake,
   ninja,
   aquamarine,
   binutils,
@@ -17,7 +16,6 @@
   hyprlang,
   hyprutils,
   hyprwayland-scanner,
-  jq,
   libGL,
   libdrm,
   libexecinfo,
@@ -27,9 +25,9 @@
   mesa,
   pango,
   pciutils,
-  python3,
   systemd,
   tomlplusplus,
+  udis86-hyprland,
   wayland,
   wayland-protocols,
   wayland-scanner,
@@ -96,13 +94,10 @@ in
 
       nativeBuildInputs = [
         hyprwayland-scanner
-        jq
         makeWrapper
         meson
-        cmake
         ninja
         pkg-config
-        python3 # for udis86
       ];
 
       outputs = [
@@ -129,6 +124,7 @@ in
           pango
           pciutils
           tomlplusplus
+          udis86-hyprland
           wayland
           wayland-protocols
           wayland-scanner

nix/overlays.nix

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ in {
     inputs.hyprlang.overlays.default
     inputs.hyprutils.overlays.default
     inputs.hyprwayland-scanner.overlays.default
+    self.overlays.udis86
 
     # Hyprland packages themselves
     (final: prev: let
@@ -64,4 +65,20 @@ in {
   hyprland-extras = lib.composeManyExtensions [
     inputs.xdph.overlays.xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
   ];
+
+  # udis86 from nixpkgs is too old, and also does not provide a .pc file
+  # this version is the one used in the git submodule, and allows us to
+  # fetch the source without '?submodules=1'
+  udis86 = final: prev: {
+    udis86-hyprland = prev.udis86.overrideAttrs (self: super: {
+      src = final.fetchFromGitHub {
+        owner = "canihavesomecoffee";
+        repo = "udis86";
+        rev = "5336633af70f3917760a6d441ff02d93477b0c86";
+        hash = "sha256-HifdUQPGsKQKQprByeIznvRLONdOXeolOsU5nkwIv3g=";
+      };
+
+      patches = [];
+    });
+  };
 }

src/meson.build

@@ -31,7 +31,11 @@ executable(
     backtrace_dep,
     epoll_dep,
     gio_dep,
-    udis86,
+
+    # Try to find canihavesomecoffee's udis86 using pkgconfig
+    # vmt/udis86 does not provide a .pc file and won't be detected this way
+    # Falls back to using the subproject through udis86.wrap
+    dependency('udis86'),
 
     dependency('pixman-1'),
     dependency('gl', 'opengl'),

subprojects/udis86.wrap

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[wrap-file]
+method = cmake
+
+[provide]
+udis86 = libudis86_dep