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Summary

Add a Sailfish OS target that packages Gea JSX/CSS applications as RPMs. The target owns its Sailfish-specific SDL2 display, input, storage, and network sources, with fullscreen sizing and startup settings. Raspberry Pi OS sources are unchanged from the base branch.

Provide Linux Bash and Windows PowerShell entry points. Both run host-side Gea code generation, stage a portable CMake/RPM project, then build it with sfdk. The first supported target is Sailfish OS 5.1.0.11 i486.

Validation

  • Generated and built the Tic Tac Toe example for Sailfish OS 5.1.0.11 i486.
  • Installed the RPM in the VirtualBox Sailfish emulator. The game rendered and tapping a square placed an X.
  • Checked the Bash script syntax and ran its --prepare-only path in MSYS2. A full sfdk build on a native Linux host has not been run yet.
  • Verified that the Raspberry Pi OS sources are unchanged from the base branch.

Scope

CLI integration (gea build --target sailfish) and ARM device packages are future work.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added Sailfish OS 5.1 as a target, with build and RPM packaging support for Linux and Windows across i486, armv7hl, and aarch64.
    • Added an SDL2-based app runtime with display, touch and keyboard input, network requests, and persistent storage.
  • Documentation
    • Added Sailfish OS build guidance and updated the project overview and Quick Start instructions.

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Walkthrough

Adds Sailfish OS 5.1 as a target with project preparation and build scripts, a CMake configuration, SDL2 display support, platform service implementations, file-backed storage, and an SDL application loop. Updates the package metadata and README to include the Sailfish target.

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Sailfish OS target

Layer / File(s) Summary
Prepare and build Sailfish projects
targets/sailfish-os/prepare.mjs, targets/sailfish-os/CMakeLists.txt, targets/sailfish-os/build-sailfish-os.*, targets/sailfish-os/README.md, targets/sailfish-os/include/*, .gitattributes, package.json, README.md
Validates app metadata, stages sources, and generates package assets and CMake source lists. Adds Bash and PowerShell build flows, CMake settings, and Sailfish target guidance. Updates package metadata, published-file exclusions, and shell line-ending attributes.
Implement Sailfish platform services
targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_app_platform.cpp, targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_apps.c, targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_audio.cpp, targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_memory.cpp, targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_network.cpp, targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_sensors.cpp, targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_timers.cpp
Adds Sailfish implementations for app identity and embedded-app operations, audio, memory allocation, fetch and Wi-Fi, sensors, and event timing.
Persist settings and runtime storage
targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_storage.cpp, targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_storage_bridge.cpp, targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_main.cpp
Adds file-backed settings and local storage, a bridge between persisted data and the generated runtime storage table, and storage loading and flushing in the application loop.
Run the SDL application loop
targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_display.cpp, targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_main.cpp
Adds an SDL2 display backend and an event loop for touch, keyboard, text, wheel, and window events. The loop runs application frames, updates after resize, and applies frame pacing.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SDL2
  participant SailfishMain as sailfish_main.cpp
  participant Application
  participant SailfishDisplay as sailfish_display.cpp
  SDL2->>SailfishMain: Provide input and window events
  SailfishMain->>Application: Dispatch events and run application frame
  SailfishMain->>SailfishDisplay: Present display frame
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d316f

A temporary storage failure can silently leave application data unsaved even after storage becomes writable again. Preserve dirty state until saving succeeds before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to d316f

The inspected display interfaces remain within the local application, and packaging defaults to requesting no sandbox permissions. Persistence inherits failure-handling limitations from the existing desktop target. No introduced security exploit was established, but storage ownership, concurrent execution, and platform enforcement remain insufficiently verified for a minimal-risk assessment.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected input and persistence paths affect the installed application process and its selected local storage directory. No remote display invocation or privilege transition was established. Cross-application isolation depends on effective Sailjail policy, configured identity, and filesystem access, which were not verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Observed touch input flows from SDL events through display coordinate conversion into bounded touch injection. Window events trigger local presentation and deferred resize; framework viewport state changes only after resize succeeds. This evidence does not support a display-entrypoint boundary bypass.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A failed deletion can leave the previous file available for restoration after restart because the bridge records the deletion as persisted and suppresses identical retries. This failure mode predates Sailfish in the Raspberry Pi target. No authentication, revocation, or other sensitive-state dependency was demonstrated, so it is not treated as a newly verified security exploit.
  • observed — Persistence is tied to completed active frames, and neither inspected desktop target has a dedicated final storage flush after loop termination. Both native and generated storage views are loaded and flushed; the bridge documents a one-mutating-view assumption, but the external facade implementation and concurrency policy remain outside coverage.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Strengthen the shared desktop persistence contract by acknowledging successful writes and deletions before updating the cached blob, retaining failed transitions for retry, and defining writer ownership and shutdown recovery. These are proposals for inherited behavior, not claims of an introduced security vulnerability.
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- Around line 513-515: Update the Sailfish preparation script to include
rpios_storage_bridge.cpp in GEA_CXX_SOURCES, and remove the GEA_SAILFISH_OS
guards around rpios_runtime_storage_load() and rpios_runtime_storage_flush() in
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- Line 85: Validate the values used for the RPM Summary and License fields
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- Line 91: Update ensure_window() to check g_framebuffer immediately after
ensure_canvas() and return if allocation failed. Perform this check before SDL
initialization and before setting attempted, so Display::init() reports failure
and a later call can retry.

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🟠 Major · Retain the dirty blob when persistence fails. · sailfish_storage_bridge.cpp:74-80

targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_storage_bridge.cpp:74-80
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Retain the dirty blob when persistence fails.

saveKv ignores temporary-file and rename failures. The bridge then updates g_last_blob, so later frames skip the unchanged blob. Return the write result and update g_last_blob only after success. Update the StorageService::saveKv declaration to return bool as well.

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--- a/targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_storage.cpp
+++ b/targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_storage.cpp
@@ -170,13 +170,13 @@ bool StorageService::loadKv(std::string &out)
 	return true;
 }
 
-void StorageService::saveKv(const std::string &blob)
+bool StorageService::saveKv(const std::string &blob)
 {
 	if (blob.empty()) {
-		::unlink(localStoragePath().c_str());
-		return;
+		return ::unlink(localStoragePath().c_str()) == 0 || errno == ENOENT;
 	}
-	writeFileAtomic(localStoragePath(), blob);
+	return writeFileAtomic(localStoragePath(), blob);
 }
--- a/targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_storage_bridge.cpp
+++ b/targets/sailfish-os/main/sailfish_storage_bridge.cpp
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ extern "C" void sailfish_runtime_storage_flush()
 	std::string blob = serializeEntries();
 	if (blob == g_last_blob) return;
-	gea::framework::services::StorageService::saveKv(blob);
-	g_last_blob.swap(blob);
+	if (gea::framework::services::StorageService::saveKv(blob))
+		g_last_blob.swap(blob);
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My review agent left the following comments. You might want to address them before we merge, or decide to implement them as follow ups:

  1. Make scale, DPR, and font viewport agree. The display defaults to window scale 1, the entry point reports a device pixel ratio of 2.0, and prepare.mjs generates fonts for a 410x502 viewport at ratio 2. On device the canvas becomes the full screen at scale 1, so none of these describe the same target. Decide what one CSS pixel means on Sailfish, then set the display scale default, the reported DPR, and the font viewport flags to match it. Also fix the display header comment, which claims the canvas stays at its tuned size while the window fills the screen.
  2. Networking is blocked by default. The generated desktop file writes an empty Sailjail permission list, and Sailjail denies network without Internet. Any app using fetch fails on device. Add Internet when the app uses fetch, or at minimum document it in the README next to the Audio example.
  3. Icon padding is opaque black. sharp's contain fit pads with black by default, so non-square icon sources get black bars on the launcher. Pass a transparent background to resize.
  4. Stage copy includes core's test tree. The copy filter only drops .git, node_modules, dist, and build, so about 300 MB of test fixtures from packages/core go into every stage and get synced into the sfdk engine. Copy only what the source manifest names, or exclude test and .build-test directories.
  5. Toolchain comes from two unpinned roots. Code generation runs the npm compiler, plugin, and core build script, while the C++ framework and source manifest come from whatever commit the sibling core checkout is on. Resolve both from one root, or check the versions agree and fail early with a clear message.

Fix if cheap, otherwise file as follow-up

  1. Finger mapping double-transforms under letterboxing. SDL's renderer already maps finger coordinates into logical space once a logical size is set. The new helper applies the viewport offset a second time. It is masked today because the resize path removes letterboxing, but the original nx * canvas_width mapping was already correct.
  2. No NDEBUG or build type in CMake. The RPM ships with asserts enabled and whatever optimisation level the SDK macro injects. Default to Release or add NDEBUG.
  3. Lockfile and package.json disagree. The lockfile root declares a Node 20.19 engine requirement that package.json does not. Add the engines field so they match, since sharp 0.35 needs it.

Sanity nitpicking
9. PR description is stale. It says the target reuses the shared SDL2 sources behind a compile definition. It forks them, as requested. Update the text.

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Updated in d3e1c37:

  • Added configurable Sailfish DPR, with matching font-generation and runtime settings.
  • Enabled runtime TTF fonts to adapt to viewport changes.
  • Removed duplicate touch-coordinate transformation; SDL already maps finger events to logical space.
  • Defaulted CMake to Release.
  • Added an early version compatibility check between the installed npm core and the native core checkout.
  • Excluded test directories from staging.
  • Made launcher icon padding transparent.
  • Documented the Sailjail Internet permission required for network access.
  • Corrected the display documentation to describe canvas resizing accurately.
    Validated with an i486 SDK build and Sailfish OS emulator tests covering rendering, touch input, and network access.
    All changes are confined to the Sailfish OS target. Raspberry Pi OS sources remain unchanged.

Also updated the PR description to reflect the independent Sailfish platform sources. Verified that package.json and the lockfile already agree on the Node.js requirement (>=20.19), so no change was needed there.

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