This is more reliable, and more accurate. For instance, this means
arguments in commands aren't surrounded by `'` on Linux unless that
is actually needed by that specific argument.
There is no equivalent helper for Windows, so we keep the old
behaviour for that.
Now we aggressively de-dup the list of libraries used while linking,
and when linking with GNU ld we have to enclose all static libraries
with -Wl,--start-group and -Wl,--end-group to force the linker to
resolve all symbols recursively. This is needed when static libraries
have circular deps on each other (see included test).
The --start/end-group change is also needed for circular dependencies
between static libraries because we no longer recursively list out all
library dependencies.
The size of build.ninja for GStreamer is now down to 6.1M from 20M,
and yields a net reduction in configuration time of 10%
We were doing this on the basis of an old comment, but there was no
test for it and I couldn't reproduce the issue with clang on Linux
at all.
Let's add a (somewhat comprehensive) test and see if it breaks
anywhere if we stop doing this.
Halves the size of gstreamer's build.ninja from 20M to 8.7M
Closes https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1057
This is useful when build_machine appears to be compatible with
host_machine, but actually isn't. For example when:
- build_machine is macOS and host_machine is the iOS Simulator
- the build_machine's libc is glibc but the host_machine libc is uClibc
- code relies on kernel features not available on the build_machine
There are cases where we need to specify arguments to gtkdoc-mkdb, like
telling it to scan extensions that are not '.h' and '.c'. Let's add a
new named argument to gnome.gtkdoc(), as well as the plumbing needed for
the gtk-doc helper script.
This was already mostly working before due to how the linker arguments were constructed, but this will now be more resilient to the case where dynamic libraries only are present.
- supported as "Link with Libraries".
- Frameworks added as a group to the project
- no need to specify custom linker flags anymore, xcodeproj works just like ninja
example mason.build file :
dep_main += [dependency('appleframeworks', modules : ['Foundation', 'AppKit', 'IOKIT', 'QuartzCore', 'OpenGL', 'GLUT', 'OpenAL'], required : true)]
* Install pip on msys (which doesn't have it)
* Install codecov/coverage everywhere.
* Generate coverage XML file manually because codecov tries to call the
coverage script itself and it's in a weird place on the path.
Jussi Pakkanen
Bálint Aradi
Chris Mayo
TingPing
Nirbheek Chauhan
Ole André Vadla Ravnås
Guillaume Poirier-Morency
Alistair Thomas
Emmanuele Bassi
Goncalo Carvalho
Rob Doolittle
Adam C. Foltzer
blackbox
Paulo Antonio Alvarez
Mike Wey
Elliott Sales de Andrade