Some compilers try very had to pretend they're another compiler (ICC
pretends to be GCC and Linux and MacOS, and MSVC on windows), Clang
behaves much like GCC, but now also has clang-cl, which behaves like MSVC.
This method provides an easy way to determine whether testing for MSVC
like arguments `/w1234` or gcc like arguments `-Wfoo` are likely to
succeed, without having to check for dozens of compilers and the host
operating system, (as you would otherwise have to do with ICC).
Replace several checks against GCC_MINGW or (GCC_MINGW, GCC_CYGWIN) with
is_windows_compiler instead, so that clang and other gcc-like compilers
using MinGW work appropriately with vs_module_defs, c_winlibs, and
cpp_winlibs.
Fixes#4434.
This allows using the imperfect profiles generated by multithreaded
programs. Without the argument, GCC fails to load them.
Clang just ignores the argument AFAICT.
Fixes https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2159
* This helps with reproducibility on macOS in the same way
`$ORIGIN` improves reproducibility on Linux-like systems.
* This makes the build-tree more resilient to users injecting
rpaths via `LDFLAGS`. Currently Meson on macOS crashes when
a build-tree rpath and a user-provided `-Wl,-rpath` in
LDFLAGS collide, leading to `install_name_tool` failures.
While this still does not solve the root cause, it makes
the occurrence much less likely, as users will generally
pass absolute `-Wl,-rpath` arguments into Meson.
--as-needed controls ELF-specific functionality (the emission of DT_NEEDED
tags)
--no-undefined is effectively always on for PE/COFF, as the linkage model
always requires symbols to be defined
binutils ld silently ignores these flags for PE targets, but lld warns that
it's ignoring them, so just don't bother emitting them for PE targets.
* Enums are strongly typed and make the whole
`gcc_type`/`clang_type`/`icc_type` distinction
redundant.
* Enums also allow extending via member functions,
which makes the code more generalisable.
It's fairly common on Linux and *BSD platforms to check for these
attributes existence, so it makes sense to me to have this checking
build into meson itself. Autotools also has a builtin for handling
these, and by building them in we can short circuit cases that we know
that these don't exist (MSVC).
Additionally this adds support for two common MSVC __declspec
attributes, dllimport and dllexport. This implements the declspec
version (even though GCC has an __attribute__ version that both it and
clang support), since GCC and Clang support the MSVC version as well.
Thus it seems reasonable to assume that most projects will use the
__declspec version over teh __attribute__ version.
We now use the soversion to set compatibility_version and
current_version by default. This is the only sane thing we can do by
default because of the restrictions on the values that can be used for
compatibility and current version.
Users can override this value with the `darwin_versions:` kwarg, which
can be a single value or a two-element list of values. The first one
is the compatibility version and the second is the current version.
Fixes https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/3555
Fixes https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1451
* Currently, RPATHs coming from dependencies and
`build_rpath` provided by the user might contain
the same path. Apple's `install_name` tool is
allergic to providing the same argument twice
when removing RPATHs:
error: install_name_tool: "-delete_rpath /usr/lib" specified more than once
Treat it the same as -lfoo by deduping and adding to --start/end-group
Reported at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1496
We don't do any advanced transformation for MSVC or de-dup because
this is a very rare syntax.
Add a keyword argument to to_native() to operate on a copy so that we
can call it multiple times instead of modifying the original compiler
args while iterating.
This is used in the unit test, and might be used in Meson at some
point too.
- For optimization=s add /O1: Use Maximum Optimization (Favor Size),
and remove /Os as it's implied by /O1.
- Because we add /O1, this implies /Gy, i.e. Function-Level Linking, so
unused code can be omitted.
- Add /Gw: Optimize Global Data, so unused data can be omitted.
With buildtype=minsize on x86 this reduces the size of a statically
linked Vala compiler binary from 5 MB down to just 1.87 MB.
This means that we will take into account all the flags set in the
cross file when fetching the list of library dirs, which means we
won't incorrectly look for 64-bit libraries when building for 32-bit.
Signed-off-by: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com>
Closes https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/3881
D is not a 'c-like' language, but it can link to C libraries. The same
might be true of Rust in the future and Go when we add support for it.
This contains no functionality changes.
All dependencies were using find_library, has_header, get_define, etc on
self.compiler assuming that it's a compiler that outputs and consumes
C-like libraries. This is not true for D (and in the future, for Rust)
since although they can consume C libraries, they do not use the
C ecosystem.
For such purposes, we now have self.clib_compiler. Nothing uses
self.compiler anymore as a result, and it has been removed.
On macOS, we set the install_name for built libraries to
@rpath/libfoo.dylib, and when linking to the library, we set the RPATH
to its path in the build directory. This allows all built binaries to
be run as-is from the build directory (uninstalled).
However, on install, we have to strip all the RPATHs because they
point to the build directory, and we change the install_name of all
built libraries to the absolute path to the library. This causes the
install name in binaries to be out of date.
We now change that install name to point to the absolute path to each
built library after installation.
Fixes https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/3038
Fixes https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/3077
With this, the default workflow on macOS matches what everyone seems
to do, including Autotools and CMake. The next step is providing a way
for build files to override the install_name that is used after
installation for use with, f.ex., private libraries when combined with
the install_rpath: kwarg on targets.
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
Phillip Cao
Dylan Baker
Josh Gao
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
pbl
Jussi Pakkanen
Xavier Claessens
David Seifert
Mohammed Amer Khalidi
Martin Storsjö
Jon Turney
Nirbheek Chauhan
Ole André Vadla Ravnås
Bruce Richardson
GoaLitiuM
Alberto Sartori
Vasu Penugonda
Christoph Behle
Paolo Bonzini