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.
On MSVC, shared libraries only export symbols that have been explicitly exported
either as part of the symbol prototype or via a module definitions file.
On compilers other than MSVC, all symbols are exported in the shared library by
default and the format for the list of symbols to export is different, so this
is only used with the VisualStudio compiler.
The module defs file path can either be relative to the current source directory
or an absolute path using meson.source_root() + '/some/path'
Nirbheek Chauhan
Jussi Pakkanen
Nirbheek Chauhan
Hemmo Nieminen
Nicolas Schneider
Marko Raatikainen
Igor Gnatenko