remove direct mention of abseil

Author: lia-viam

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          brew install abseil cmake boost grpc protobuf xtensor
+          brew install cmake boost grpc protobuf xtensor
           brew install pkg-config ninja buf
 
       - name: Setup build directory

BUILDING.md

@@ -27,15 +27,15 @@ guide, before continuing further.
 The project depends on [CMake](https://cmake.org/) >= 3.25,
 [Boost](https://www.boost.org/) >= 1.74, [gRPC](https://grpc.io/) >=
 1.30.2, [protobuf](https://protobuf.dev/overview/) >= 3.12.4,
-[xtensor](https://github.com/xtensor-stack/xtensor) >= 0.24.3,
-[abseil](https://abseil.io/) and on the transitive dependencies of
+[xtensor](https://github.com/xtensor-stack/xtensor) >= 0.24.3
+and on the transitive dependencies of
 those projects.
 
 You will need to install these required dependencies before building
 the Viam C++ SDK, preferably by way of your system package manager:
 
-- Debian: `apt-get install cmake build-essential libabsl-dev libboost-all-dev libgrpc++-dev libprotobuf-dev libxtensor-dev`
-- MacOS with Homebrew: `brew install abseil cmake boost grpc protobuf xtensor`
+- Debian: `apt-get install cmake build-essential libboost-all-dev libgrpc++-dev libprotobuf-dev libxtensor-dev`
+- MacOS with Homebrew: `brew install cmake boost grpc protobuf xtensor`
 
 There are also several optional or conditionally required dependencies:
 

conanfile.py

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def configure(self):
             # From some experiments it seems that the shared-ness of these packages
             # should match that of the SDK recipe. Failure to do so can cause linker
             # errors while compiling, or static initialization errors at runtime for modules.
-            for lib in ["grpc", "protobuf", "abseil"]:
+            for lib in ["grpc", "protobuf"]:
                 self.options[lib].shared = True
 
     def requirements(self):
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ def requirements(self):
         self.requires('protobuf/[>=3.17.1]', transitive_libs=True)
 
         self.requires('xtensor/[>=0.24.3]')
-        self.requires('abseil/[>=20230125.3]', transitive_libs=True)
 
     def build_requirements(self):
         if self.options.offline_proto_generation:
@@ -119,8 +118,7 @@ def package_info(self):
             "xtensor::xtensor",
 
             "viamapi",
-            "viam_rust_utils",
-            "abseil::absl_strings",
+            "viam_rust_utils"
         ])
 
         self.cpp_info.components["viamsdk"].frameworks = ["Security"]

src/viam/sdk/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -243,7 +243,6 @@ target_link_libraries(viamsdk
   PRIVATE ${VIAMCPPSDK_GRPCXX_LIBRARIES}
   PRIVATE ${VIAMCPPSDK_GRPC_LIBRARIES}
   PRIVATE ${VIAMCPPSDK_PROTOBUF_LIBRARIES}
-  PRIVATE absl::strings
   PRIVATE viam_rust_utils
   PRIVATE Threads::Threads
 )

src/viam/sdk/services/private/mlmodel.cpp

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 #include <type_traits>
 #include <utility>
 
-#include <absl/strings/escaping.h>
 #include <boost/variant/get.hpp>
 
 #include <viam/sdk/common/exception.hpp>