Compile l10nUtil.exe with py2exe as one of NVDA's executables, rather than using nuitka which took way too long to compile. (#17712)

l10nUtil (which allows translators to download and upload to Crowdin, and convert xliffs to markdown and html) s currently build using nuitka. However, this takes a significant amount of time. On Appveyor this takes roughly 20 minutes, which is more than a rd of the total build time.In many cases, this pushes the buildtime past 60 minutes and the build is cancelled by appveyor.

Description of development approach
Instead of using Nuitka, compile l10nUtil.exe as one of NVDA's executables using py2exe.
Several modules and packages in lxml and markdown extensions needed to be explicitly listed in setup.py for this to work. Also, l1nutil.py, markdownTranslate.py, md2html.py and keyCommandsDoc.py were moved from user_docs to source, which made it easier to handle with py2exe.
l10nUtil.exe still works just the same, and build time is cut down by at least 19 minutes.

Author: michaelDCurran

appveyor/scripts/setSconsArgs.ps1

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop";
-$sconsOutTargets = "launcher developerGuide changes userGuide keyCommands client moduleList nvdaL10nUtil"
+$sconsOutTargets = "launcher developerGuide changes userGuide keyCommands client moduleList"
 if(!$env:APPVEYOR_PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER -and $env:feature_buildAppx) {
 	$sconsOutTargets += " appx"
 }

projectDocs/dev/developerGuide/sconscript

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ mdFileSub = env.Substfile(
 htmlFile = env.Command(
 	target=mdFile.abspath.replace(".md", ".html"),
 	source=mdFileSub,
-	action=[f'@{sys.executable} user_docs/md2html.py -t developerGuide "$SOURCE" "$TARGET"'],
+	action=[f'@{sys.executable} source/md2html.py -t developerGuide "$SOURCE" "$TARGET"'],
 )
 devGuide = env.Command(
 	target=devDocsOutputDir.File("developerGuide.html"), source=htmlFile, action=Move("$TARGET", "$SOURCE")

requirements.txt

@@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ pycaw==20240210
 
 # Packaging NVDA
 py2exe==0.13.0.2
-# xliff2html is packaged with nuitka 
-nuitka==2.5.4
-# l10nUtil requires Crowdin 
+# l10nUtil requires Crowdin
 crowdin-api-client==1.21.0
 
 # Creating XML unit test reports

sconstruct

@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ for xliffFile in env.Glob(os.path.join(userDocsDir.path, "*", "*.xliff")):
 	env.Command(
 		mdFile,
 		xliffFile,
-		[f'@{sys.executable} user_docs/markdownTranslate.py generateMarkdown -x "{xliffFile}" -o "{mdFile}"'],
+		[f'@{sys.executable} source/markdownTranslate.py generateMarkdown -x "{xliffFile}" -o "{mdFile}"'],
 	)
 # Allow all markdown files to be converted to html in user_docs
 for mdFile in env.Glob(os.path.join(userDocsDir.path, "*", "*.md")):
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ for mdFile in env.Glob(os.path.join(userDocsDir.path, "*", "*.md")):
 	htmlFile = env.Command(
 		target=mdFile.abspath.replace(".md", ".html"),
 		source=mdFileSub,
-		action=[f'@{sys.executable} user_docs/md2html.py -l {lang} -t {docType} "$SOURCE" "$TARGET"'],
+		action=[f'@{sys.executable} source/md2html.py -l {lang} -t {docType} "$SOURCE" "$TARGET"'],
 	)
 	styleInstallPath = os.path.dirname(mdFile.abspath)
 	installedStyle = env.Install(styleInstallPath, styles)
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ for userGuideFileSub in env.Glob(os.path.join(userDocsDir.path, "*", "userGuide.
 	keyCommandsHtmlFile = env.Command(
 		target=userGuideFileSub.abspath.replace("userGuide.md.sub", "keyCommands.html"),
 		source=userGuideFileSub,
-		action=[f'@{sys.executable} user_docs/md2html.py -l {lang} -t keyCommands "$SOURCE" "$TARGET"'],
+		action=[f'@{sys.executable} source/md2html.py -l {lang} -t keyCommands "$SOURCE" "$TARGET"'],
 	)
 	env.Depends(keyCommandsHtmlFile, userGuideFileSub)
 
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ def NVDADistGenerator(target, source, env, for_signature):
 				action.append(Copy(target[0], file.path))
 
 	if certFile or apiSigningToken:
-		for prog in "nvda_noUIAccess.exe", "nvda_uiAccess.exe", "nvda_slave.exe":
+		for prog in "nvda_noUIAccess.exe", "nvda_uiAccess.exe", "nvda_slave.exe", "l10nUtil.exe":
 			action.append(
 				lambda target, source, env, progByVal=prog: env["signExec"](
 					[target[0].File(progByVal)], source, env
@@ -731,11 +731,3 @@ source = env.Dir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "dist"))
 # Putting the target in the output dir automatically causes AppVeyor to package it as an artefact
 target = env.File(os.path.join(outputDir.abspath, "library_modules.txt"))
 env.Alias("moduleList", env.GenerateModuleList(target, source))
-
-nvdaL10nUtil = env.Command(
-	target=outputDir.File("l10nUtil.exe"),
-	source="user_docs\l10nUtil.py",
-	ENV=os.environ,
-	action=f"nuitka --assume-yes-for-downloads --remove-output --standalone --onefile --output-dir={outputDir.abspath} --include-module=mdx_truly_sane_lists --include-module=markdown_link_attr_modifier --include-module=mdx_gh_links $SOURCE",
-)
-env.Alias("nvdaL10nUtil", nvdaL10nUtil)

user_docs/keyCommandsDoc.py source/keyCommandsDoc.py

@@ -192,6 +192,17 @@ def _genManifestTemplate(shouldHaveUIAccess: bool) -> tuple[int, int, bytes]:
 				"company_name": f"Bill Dengler, {publisher}",
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			"script": "l10nUtil.py",
+			"version_info": {
+				"version": formatBuildVersionString(),
+				"description": "NVDA Localization Utility",
+				"product_name": name,
+				"product_version": version,
+				"copyright": NVDAcopyright,
+				"company_name": publisher,
+			},
+		},
 	],
 	options={
 		"verbose": 2,
@@ -241,6 +252,11 @@ def _genManifestTemplate(shouldHaveUIAccess: bool) -> tuple[int, int, bytes]:
 			"visionEnhancementProviders",
 			# Required for markdown, markdown implicitly imports this so it isn't picked up
 			"html.parser",
+			"lxml._elementpath",
+			"markdown.extensions",
+			"markdown_link_attr_modifier",
+			"mdx_truly_sane_lists",
+			"mdx_gh_links",
 		],
 		"includes": [
 			"nvdaBuiltin",

user_docs/l10nUtil.py source/l10nUtil.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class TestMarkdownTranslate(unittest.TestCase):
 		os.path.dirname(__file__),
 		"..",
 		"..",
-		"user_docs",
+		"source",
 		"markdownTranslate.py",
 	)
 	testDir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "markdownTranslate")