Can run argument strings with internal Python. Closes #5217.

mesonbuild/mesonmain.py

@@ -81,11 +81,15 @@ class CommandLineParser:
             self.commands[i] = p
 
     def add_runpython_arguments(self, parser):
+        parser.add_argument('-c', action='store_true', dest='eval_arg', default=False)
         parser.add_argument('script_file')
         parser.add_argument('script_args', nargs=argparse.REMAINDER)
 
     def run_runpython_command(self, options):
         import runpy
+        if options.eval_arg:
+            exec(options.script_file)
+        else:
             sys.argv[1:] = options.script_args
             sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(options.script_file))
             runpy.run_path(options.script_file, run_name='__main__')

mesonbuild/modules/python.py

@@ -42,9 +42,8 @@ mod_kwargs -= set(['name_prefix', 'name_suffix'])
 
 
 def run_command(python, command):
-    _, stdout, _ = mesonlib.Popen_safe(python.get_command() + [
+    cmd = python.get_command() + ['-c', command]
-        '-c',
+    _, stdout, _ = mesonlib.Popen_safe(cmd)
-        command])
 
     return stdout.strip()
 
@@ -265,8 +264,7 @@ class PythonDependency(ExternalDependency):
             return super().get_pkgconfig_variable(variable_name, kwargs)
 
 
-INTROSPECT_COMMAND = '''
+INTROSPECT_COMMAND = '''import sysconfig
-import sysconfig
 import json
 import sys
 

msi/createmsi.py

@@ -84,6 +84,28 @@ class PackageGenerator:
         modules = ['mesonbuild.' + modname + '.' + x for x in modules if not x.startswith('_')]
         return modules
 
+    def get_more_modules(self):
+        # Python packagers want to minimal and only copy the things that
+        # they can see that are used. They are blind to many things.
+        return ['distutils.archive_util',
+                'distutils.cmd',
+                'distutils.config',
+                'distutils.core',
+                'distutils.debug',
+                'distutils.dep_util',
+                'distutils.dir_util',
+                'distutils.dist',
+                'distutils.errors',
+                'distutils.extension',
+                'distutils.fancy_getopt',
+                'distutils.file_util',
+                'distutils.spawn',
+                'distutils.util',
+                'distutils.version',
+                'distutils.command.build_ext',
+                'distutils.command.build',
+                ]
+
     def build_dist(self):
         for sdir in self.staging_dirs:
             if os.path.exists(sdir):
@@ -91,7 +113,7 @@ class PackageGenerator:
         main_stage, ninja_stage = self.staging_dirs
         modules = self.get_all_modules_from_dir('mesonbuild/modules')
         modules += self.get_all_modules_from_dir('mesonbuild/scripts')
-        modules += ['distutils.version']
+        modules += self.get_more_modules()
         modulestr = ','.join(modules)
         python = shutil.which('python')
         cxfreeze = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(python), "Scripts", "cxfreeze")