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short-description: Auto-detection of features like ccache and code coverage |
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# Feature autodetection |
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Meson is designed for high productivity. It tries to do as many things |
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automatically as it possibly can. |
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Ccache |
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[Ccache](https://ccache.dev/) is a cache system designed to make |
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compiling faster. When you run Meson for the first time for a given |
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project, it checks if Ccache is installed. If it is, Meson will use it |
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automatically. |
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If you do not wish to use Ccache for some reason, just specify your |
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compiler with environment variables `CC` and/or `CXX` when first |
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running Meson (remember that once specified the compiler can not be |
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changed). Meson will then use the specified compiler without Ccache. |
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Coverage |
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When doing a code coverage build, Meson will check for existence of |
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the binaries `gcovr`, `lcov` and `genhtml`. If version 3.3 or higher |
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of the first is found, targets called *coverage-text*, *coverage-xml* |
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and *coverage-html* are generated. Alternatively, if the latter two |
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are found, only the target *coverage-html* is generated. Coverage |
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reports can then be produced simply by calling e.g. `ninja |
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coverage-xml`. As a convenience, a high-level *coverage* target is |
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also generated which will produce all 3 coverage report types, if |
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possible. |
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Note that generating any of the coverage reports described above |
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requires the tests (i.e. `ninja test`) to finish running so the |
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information about the functions that are called in the tests can be |
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gathered for the report.
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