The install name is used by consumers of the library to find the
library at runtime. If it's @rpath/libfoo.dylib, all consumers must
manually add the library path to RPATH, which is not what people
expect.
Almost everyone sets the library install name as the full path to the
library, and this is done at install time with install_name_tool.
When we link to an external library either with find_library() without
any dirs:, or with dependency(), we should be able to run uninstalled
out of the box without having to set any environment variables or other
shenanigans.
This is especially important on macOS because only the system frameworks
directory is in the default runtime path, and all other frameworks and
libraries need to be found with RPATH or absolute path to the dylib.
This is a special type of option to be passed to most 'required' keyword
arguments. It adds a 3rd state to the traditional boolean value to cause
those methods to always return not-found even if the dependency could be
found.
Since integrators doesn't want enabled features to be a surprise there
is a global option "auto_features" to enable or disable all
automatic features.
When a test fails due to a signal (e.g., SIGSEGV) it can be somewhat
mysterious why the test failed. Also, even when a test fails due to a
non-zero exit status it would help if the exit status was reported. This
augments the result string to include the non-zero exit status or
signal number and name.
Resolves#3642
Added method concatenate_string_literals to CCompiler. Will concatenate
string literals.
Added keyword argument 'concatenate_string_literals' to Compiler.get_define.
If used will apply concatenate_string_literals to its return value.
There is a lot of overhead for each travis job, because docker pull
takes 3 minutes. Each cross test takes 3-4 minutes.
To make things worse, sometimes Dockerhub is slow and docker pull takes
longer than 3 minutes.
Because vala is not listed in clike_langs, is_source(fname) is returning False
for Vala source files. Therefore, extract_all_objects() is completely empty
for Vala programs.
Fixes#791
We say 'different dependencies support different values for this', but
nowhere document what values are supported, so the only way to find these
out is to read the source, or guess. Make a start at doing that.
Input files can be in any file encoding, not just utf-8 or isolatin1. Meson
should not make assumptions here and allow for the user to specify the
encoding to use.
e.g. 'meson x86_64-w64-mingw32 --cross-file x86_64-w64-mingw32' currently
fails with an IsADirectoryError exception.
Cross files must be files, so when searching, only accept a candidate path
which is an existing file, not just an existing path.
Otherwise we can end up searching for the same library tens of times,
because pkg-config does not de-duplicate -lfoo args before returning
them.
We use -Wl,--start-group/end-group, so we do not need to worry about
ordering issues in static libraries.
Nirbheek Chauhan
Mathieu Duponchelle
Xavier Claessens
Kurtis Rader
Jussi Pakkanen
Jon Turney
Christoph Behle
Matthew Waters
Niklas Claesson
Paolo Bonzini
Sander Sweers
Robert Ancell
Thibault Saunier