Deal with clang-cl generating empty implibs

Deal with clang-cl doing the sane (but different to MSVC) thing, of
generating an empty import library, rather than silently ignoring
/IMPLIB when there are no exports.

run_project_tests.py

@@ -118,8 +118,14 @@ def get_relative_files_list_from_dir(fromdir):
     return paths
 
 def platform_fix_name(fname, compiler, env):
+    # canonicalize compiler
+    if compiler == 'clang-cl':
+        canonical_compiler = 'msvc'
+    else:
+        canonical_compiler = compiler
+
     if '?lib' in fname:
-        if mesonlib.for_windows(env.is_cross_build(), env) and compiler == 'msvc':
+        if mesonlib.for_windows(env.is_cross_build(), env) and canonical_compiler == 'msvc':
             fname = re.sub(r'lib/\?lib(.*)\.', r'bin/\1.', fname)
             fname = re.sub(r'/\?lib/', r'/bin/', fname)
         elif mesonlib.for_windows(env.is_cross_build(), env):
@@ -141,17 +147,17 @@ def platform_fix_name(fname, compiler, env):
 
     if fname.startswith('?msvc:'):
         fname = fname[6:]
-        if compiler != 'msvc':
+        if canonical_compiler != 'msvc':
             return None
 
     if fname.startswith('?gcc:'):
         fname = fname[5:]
-        if compiler == 'msvc':
+        if canonical_compiler == 'msvc':
             return None
 
     if fname.startswith('?cygwin:'):
         fname = fname[8:]
-        if compiler == 'msvc' or not mesonlib.for_cygwin(env.is_cross_build(), env):
+        if not mesonlib.for_cygwin(env.is_cross_build(), env):
             return None
 
     if fname.endswith('?so'):
@@ -173,11 +179,14 @@ def platform_fix_name(fname, compiler, env):
         else:
             return fname[:-3] + '.so'
 
-    if fname.endswith('?implib'):
-        if mesonlib.for_windows(env.is_cross_build(), env) and compiler == 'msvc':
-            return re.sub(r'/(?:lib|)([^/]*?)\?implib$', r'/\1.lib', fname)
+    if fname.endswith('?implib') or fname.endswith('?implibempty'):
+        if mesonlib.for_windows(env.is_cross_build(), env) and canonical_compiler == 'msvc':
+            # only MSVC doesn't generate empty implibs
+            if fname.endswith('?implibempty') and compiler == 'msvc':
+                return None
+            return re.sub(r'/(?:lib|)([^/]*?)\?implib(?:empty|)$', r'/\1.lib', fname)
         elif mesonlib.for_windows(env.is_cross_build(), env) or mesonlib.for_cygwin(env.is_cross_build(), env):
-            return fname[:-7] + '.dll.a'
+            return re.sub(r'\?implib(?:empty|)$', r'.dll.a', fname)
         else:
             return None
 
@@ -732,10 +741,6 @@ def detect_system_compiler():
             raise RuntimeError("Could not find C compiler.")
         system_compiler = comp.get_id()
 
-    # canonicalize for platform_fix_name()
-    if system_compiler == 'clang-cl':
-        system_compiler = 'msvc'
-
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Run the test suite of Meson.")
     parser.add_argument('extra_args', nargs='*',

test cases/common/122 shared module/installed_files.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 usr/lib/modules/libnosyms?so
-?gcc:usr/lib/modules/libnosyms?implib
+usr/lib/modules/libnosyms?implibempty
 ?msvc:usr/lib/modules/nosyms.pdb