For commands that always output to stdout and don't have a "-o" or
"--output" or some other similar option, this 'capture' setting allows
the build to capture the result and place it in the output file.
Target-specific compiler options should be split into pre-processor
defines, include directories, and additional options, then
escaped/quoted and added to the appropriate portions of the project
file.
The "115 spaces backslash" test now checks that backslashes and spaces
now work properly in all three places.
Trivially correct typo fix. Didn't actually break anything because the
fallback is libdir anyway, and we always install static libraries to
libdir.
Pointed out by Zhe Wang (0x1997).
It should always be passed build_to_src otherwise the path for generated
files will always be wrong. Passing the vcxproj path as the build_to_src
only works for files in the source tree.
These need to be set via XML tags and not passed directly as
AdditionalOptions. Otherwise the project will end up with inconsistent
compiler options and the build will fail.
Since Meson internals assume that these will be set via a command-line
invocation, we need to detect the presence of various flags in
buildtype_args and buildtype_link_args and set the correct options in
the vcxproj file.
Note that this means different configurations (debug/release/etc) cannot
be enumerated in the vcxproj/sln files and chosen by the user at build
time because arbitrary build characteristics can depend on that. The
only way to support that is by doing a full parse and conversion of
Meson build files (for all build options) to vcxproj files.
The link arguments for each dependency are split into these three and
added to the vcxproj file. Without this targets cannot find the external
dependencies.
This allows us to output either the relative or absolute path as
requested. Fixes usage of configure_file inside CustomTarget commands
with the VS backends.
This commit contains several changes to the naming and versioning of
shared and static libraries. The details are documented at:
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/417
Here's a brief summary:
* The results of binary and compiler detection via environment functions
are now cached so that they can be called repeatedly without
performance penalty. This is necessary because every
build.SharedLibrary object has to know whether the compiler is MSVC or
not (output filenames depend on that), and so the compiler detection
has to be called for each object instantiation.
* Linux shared libraries don't always have a library version. Sometimes
only soversions are specified (and vice-versa), so support both.
* Don't use versioned filenames when generating DLLs, DLLs are never
versioned using the suffix in the way that .so libraries are. Hence,
they don't use "aliases". Only Linux shared libraries use those.
* OS X dylibs do not use filename aliases at all. They only use the
soversion in the dylib name (libfoo.X.dylib), and that's it. If
there's no soversion specified, the dylib is called libfoo.dylib.
Further versioning in dylibs is supposed to be done with the
-current_version argument to clang, but this is TBD.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/DynamicLibraries/100-Articles/DynamicLibraryDesignGuidelines.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002013-SW23
* Install DLLs into bindir and import libraries into libdir
* Static libraries are now always called libfoo.a, even with MSVC
* .lib import libraries are always generated when building with MSVC
* .dll.a import libraries are always generated when building with
MinGW/GCC or MinGW/clang
* TODO: Use dlltool if available to generate .dll.a when .lib is
generated and vice-versa.
* Library and executable suffix/prefixes are now always correctly
overriden by the values of the 'name_prefix' and 'name_suffix' keyword
arguments.
Previously Meson would use the name of the first .vala source file. This
doesn't work for some projects. Tracker is one example: it has
several libraries that mix Vala and C code. In such cases, none of the
.vala files tend to bear the name of the library we actually want to
generate.
Jussi Pakkanen
Elliott Sales de Andrade
Matthias Klumpp
Nirbheek Chauhan
Nirbheek Chauhan
Noam Meltzer
Sam Thursfield