It is perfectly valid to pass the arguments separately `-L /some/dir/`,
however, meson later groups arguments by whether they start with -L or
not, which breaks passing the -L and the directory separately.
Fixes#6003
Now that the linkers are split out of the compilers this enum is
only used to know what platform we're compiling for. Which is
what the MachineInfo class is for
Instead of the DynamicLinker returning a hardcoded value like
`-Wl,-foo`, it now is passed a value that could be '-Wl,', or could be
something '-Xlinker='
This makes a few things cleaner, and will make it possible to fix using
clang (not clang-cl) on windows, where it invokes either link.exe or
lld-link.exe instead of a gnu-ld compatible linker.
Before python 3.5.4 typing didn't have the NoReturn type, use a string
to forward declare it.
aside: I can't wait to be able to use python 3.7's
__future__.annotations and not have to deal wit hthis anymore.
Fixes#5822
This is a mixin class for DynamicLinkers that aims to provide only the
most basic posix-like linker arguments, in other words bits that gnu ld,
apple's ld, solaris's ld, and other completely disjoint linkers that are
used on Unix-like OSes share.
I started out just annotating, but realized there is a lot of really
silly duplication of methods in this module. Nearly all of the methods
return [], but each class implemented the same methods over and over!
I've fixed this by moving the default implementation down into the
`StaticLinker` class, and then overriding as necessary in the derived
classes.
It appears that LIB/LINK default to the host architecture if they can't
guess it from the first object. With the MSVC toolchain, resource files
are (usually) compiled to an arch-neutral .res format. Always
explicitly provide a '/MACHINE:' argument to avoid it guessing
incorrectly when cross-compiling.
ninja chokes when building FFmpeg's static libraries, as the
command line can be larger than 32000.
This was disabled on purpose in #1649, but the rsp syntax was
different: this commit makes it so the options and output file
are still passed on the command line, gcc-ar didn't work
otherwise.
Jussi Pakkanen