vs: Write checksums in PE binaries (DLLs and EXEs)

This is needed for detecting data corruption, and its absence (or
an incorrect value) is also used as a hint by anti-viruses that the
binary may be malware.

Flag is only supported by MSVC `link.exe`, not `lld-link.exe`

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/release-set-the-checksum

mesonbuild/backend/vs2010backend.py

@@ -1191,6 +1191,10 @@ class Vs2010Backend(backends.Backend):
             targetmachine.text = 'MachineARM'
         else:
             raise MesonException('Unsupported Visual Studio target machine: ' + targetplatform)
+        # /nologo
+        ET.SubElement(link, 'SuppressStartupBanner').text = 'true'
+        # /release
+        ET.SubElement(link, 'SetChecksum').text = 'true'
 
         meson_file_group = ET.SubElement(root, 'ItemGroup')
         ET.SubElement(meson_file_group, 'None', Include=os.path.join(proj_to_src_dir, build_filename))

mesonbuild/linkers.py

@@ -845,6 +845,9 @@ class MSVCDynamicLinker(VisualStudioLikeLinkerMixin, DynamicLinker):
         super().__init__(exelist or ['link.exe'], for_machine, 'link',
                          prefix, always_args, machine=machine, version=version, direct=direct)
 
+    def get_always_args(self) -> T.List[str]:
+        return self._apply_prefix(['/nologo', '/release']) + super().get_always_args()
+
 
 class ClangClDynamicLinker(VisualStudioLikeLinkerMixin, DynamicLinker):