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name: dep
long_name: Dependency object
description: Abstract representation of a dependency
methods:
- name: found
returns: bool
description: Returns whether the dependency was found.
- name: name
since: 0.48.0
returns: str
description: |
Returns the name of the dependency that was searched.
Returns `'internal'` for dependencies created with
[[declare_dependency]].
- name: get_pkgconfig_variable
since: 0.36.0
deprecated: 0.56.0
returns: str
description: |
Gets the pkg-config variable specified,
or, if invoked on a non pkg-config
dependency, error out.
posargs:
var_name:
type: str
description: Name of the variable to query
kwargs:
define_variable:
type: list[str]
since: 0.44.0
description: |
You can also redefine a
variable by passing a list to this kwarg
that can affect the retrieved variable: `['prefix', '/'])`.
default:
type: str
since: 0.45.0
description: |
The value to return if the variable was not found.
A warning is issued if the variable is not defined and this kwarg is not set.
- name: get_configtool_variable
since: 0.44.0
deprecated: 0.56.0
returns: str
description: |
Gets the command line argument from the config tool (with `--` prepended), or,
if invoked on a non config-tool dependency, error out.
posargs:
var_name:
type: str
description: Name of the variable to query
- name: type_name
returns: str
description: |
Returns a string describing the type of the
dependency, the most common values are `internal` for deps created
with [[declare_dependency]] and `pkgconfig` for system dependencies
obtained with Pkg-config.
- name: version
returns: str
description: |
the version number as a string,
for example `1.2.8`.
`unknown` if the dependency provider doesn't support determining the
version.
- name: include_type
returns: str
since: 0.52.0
description: Returns the value set by the `include_type` kwarg.
- name: as_system
returns: dep
since: 0.52.0
description: |
Returns a copy of the dependency object, which has changed the value of `include_type`
to `value`. The `value` argument is optional and
defaults to `'preserve'`.
optargs:
value:
type: str
description: The new value. See [[dependency]] for supported values.
- name: as_link_whole
returns: dep
since: 0.56.0
description: |
Only dependencies created with [[declare_dependency]],
returns a copy of the dependency object with all
link_with arguments changed to link_whole. This is useful for example for
fallback dependency from a subproject built with `default_library=static`.
Note that all `link_with` objects must be static libraries otherwise an error
will be raised when trying to `link_whole` a shared library.
- name: partial_dependency
returns: dep
since: 0.46.0
description: |
Returns a new dependency object with the same name, version, found status,
type name, and methods as the object that called it. This new
object will only inherit other attributes from its parent as
controlled by keyword arguments.
If the parent has any dependencies, those will be applied to the new
partial dependency with the same rules. So, given:
```meson
dep1 = declare_dependency(compile_args : '-Werror=foo', link_with : 'libfoo')
dep2 = declare_dependency(compile_args : '-Werror=bar', dependencies : dep1)
dep3 = dep2.partial_dependency(compile_args : true)
```
dep3 will add `['-Werror=foo', '-Werror=bar']` to the compiler args
of any target it is added to, but libfoo will not be added to the
link_args.
The following arguments will add the following attributes:
- compile_args: any arguments passed to the compiler
- link_args: any arguments passed to the linker
- links: anything passed via link_with or link_whole
- includes: any include_directories
- sources: any compiled or static sources the dependency has
warnings:
- A bug present until 0.50.1 results in the above behavior
not working correctly.
kwargs:
compile_args:
type: bool
default: false
description: Whether to include compile_args
link_args:
type: bool
default: false
description: Whether to include link_args
links:
type: bool
default: false
description: Whether to include links
includes:
type: bool
default: false
description: Whether to include includes
sources:
type: bool
default: false
description: Whether to include sources
- name: get_variable
returns: str
since: 0.51.0
description: |
A generic variable getter method, which replaces the
`get_*type*_variable` methods. This allows one to get the variable
from a dependency without knowing specifically how that dependency
was found. If `default_value` is set and the value cannot be gotten
from the object then `default_value` is returned, if it is not set
then an error is raised.
optargs:
varname:
type: str
since: 0.58.0
description: |
This argument is used as a default value
for `cmake`, `pkgconfig`, `configtool` and `internal` keyword
arguments. It is useful in the common case where `pkgconfig` and `internal`
use the same variable name, in which case it's easier to write `dep.get_variable('foo')`
instead of `dep.get_variable(pkgconfig: 'foo', internal: 'foo')`.
kwargs:
cmake:
type: str
description: The CMake variable name
pkgconfig:
type: str
description: The pkgconfig variable name
configtool:
type: str
description: The configtool variable name
internal:
type: str
since: 0.54.0
description: The internal variable name
default_value:
type: str
description: The davault value to return when the variable does not exist
pkgconfig_define:
type: list[str]
description: See [[dep.get_pkgconfig_variable]]