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)]
mesonconf prints build dir information in the order of
'Option' 'Description' 'Current Value' and, optionally, 'Possible Value'.
The Description tends to be longer and push the following values far
right, sometimes way far than fits in the full screen size of a
terminal on a FullHD monitor.
Experienced users know which options they want to change without
looking at the description string however they need to check the
current values for sure.
This patch moves the description to the last column. Now mesonconf
prints options in the following order:
'Option' 'Current Value' 'Possible Value' 'Description'
To implement this, mainly print_aligned() is modified. The second
argument of the function is changed from
- array of array of string to
- array of dict with 'name', 'descr', 'value', and 'choices,
which maps to 'option', 'description', 'current value' and 'possible
values', respectively.
Since the position of the possible values are moved before its
description, the presence and the length of it affects header as well
as the following description. Thus, we cal curate it before printing
the header.
To avoid re-calculation, we keep string version of the values and
flattened version of the possible values _in the given array_, which
means that now the print_aligned() function modify the the given
array. The current callers do not use the passing array. So there
should be no bad effects.
Use the compiler object to find the gmock library. Fixes following
cases:
- cross compiling looked in host library paths
- static libgmock was not supported
Change-Id: Ie3912b8b4dd3b71d7a5ae2adae7295d3b685fddf
Use the compiler object to find gtest libraries. Fixes following
cases:
- cross compiling looked in host library paths
- static libgtest was not supported
Change-Id: If42cdf873db38676b99adca60752f652aff097a2
Note that gui_app: is currently ignored when using the ninja backend with VS
compilers, so I guess you get the default linker behaviour, which the
documentation says is guessing the subsystem depending on if a main or
WinMain symbol exists...
Jussi Pakkanen
Nirbheek Chauhan
Ole André Vadla Ravnås
Guillaume Poirier-Morency
Alistair Thomas
Emmanuele Bassi
Goncalo Carvalho
Bálint Aradi
Adam C. Foltzer
Rob Doolittle
blackbox
Paulo Antonio Alvarez
Mike Wey
Elliott Sales de Andrade
Jon Turney
Yasushi SHOJI
Lars Persson