The extra arguments are typically used to specified the location of
installed API references that gtk-doc can use to create cross links
for symbols.
Fixes#555
limits.h is a requirement of the C language and is available with all compilers
and platforms from the last two decades. If limits.h is not available, the
compiler only supports an ancient dialect of C and lots of other things will
break too.
Consolidate the C/C++ compiler sanity checks since the test code is almost
exactly the same, and then use that for the MSVC C/C++ compilers as well. All
these sanity checks had diverged because of the code duplication.
This also fixes an intermittent sanity check failure that I was seeing with
MSVC.
Note: The ObjC/C++ compilers can also probably use the same implementation.
The directory from where the source files are sought when producing a
coverage report in text or XML format should not be the build directory
but the source directory instead.
Object files from a custom_target are like external objects and must be
added to the project.
Object files from a generator are automatically used by MSBuild, since they
are part of the CustomBuildStep and thus part of the same project as the
current build target.
With the change to cc.links to translate unix link flags, this is no
longer needed and is wrong because it hasn't kept-up with the improved
default cc.find_library implementation.
Instead, return the values of the test and benchmark setup data files so
that the ninja/osx/vs backends can use those filenames instead of
hard-coding them.
When a CustomTarget is run with a command that is an executable built
by the project which also has a DLL built in the same project as a
dependency, the EXE can't run on Windows because the DLL can't be found.
On UNIX-like systems, we set the RPATH using the linker so these
dependencies can be found, but on Windows the only way is to set the
PATH environment variable.
The same problem exists for tests, so we reuse that infrastructure by
creating a new meson_exe.py script that can be used as a wrapper to run
CustomTarget commands on Windows. This can later also be extended to add
support for setting an environment while calling the command needed to
generate a CustomTarget: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/266
Jussi Pakkanen
Emmanuele Bassi
Nirbheek Chauhan
Hemmo Nieminen
Minijackson
Nicolas Schneider
Nirbheek Chauhan