From d95a1085031fd1deb24e8f3232e9052e598b2b4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 05:20:04 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] compilers: MSVC does not understand the -lfoo syntax

MSVC requires import libraries called foo.lib for linking to foo.dll, so
translate -lfoo to that. If foo.lib doesn't exist, linking will fail as
expected.
---
 mesonbuild/compilers.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers.py b/mesonbuild/compilers.py
index a32034309..3d2f2b3ce 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers.py
@@ -1183,6 +1183,9 @@ class VisualStudioCCompiler(CCompiler):
         for i in args:
             if i.startswith('-L'):
                 i = '/LIBPATH:' + i[2:]
+            # Translate GNU-style -lfoo library name to the import library
+            if i.startswith('-l'):
+                i = i[2:] + '.lib'
             result.append(i)
         return result