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2022-03-30Add new debug() functionMarvin Scholz1-0/+5
Adds a new debug() function that can be used in the meson.build to log messages to the meson-log.txt that will not be printed to stdout when configuring the project.
2022-03-27Fix typoÖnder Görmez1-1/+1
2022-03-27docs: add missing docs for new pkgconfig featureEli Schwartz1-1/+2
Added in commit 6240920c213fb76b4e4be8b6b59ae3346cbbcf77 and documented in release notes but not in module docs.
2022-03-24Make compilers list per subprojectXavier Claessens1-0/+6
Previously subprojects inherited languages already added by main project, or any previous subproject. This change to have a list of compilers per interpreters, which means that if a subproject does not add 'c' language it won't be able to compile .c files any more, even if main project added the 'c' language. This delays processing list of compilers until the interpreter adds the BuildTarget into its list of targets. That way the interpreter can add missing languages instead of duplicating that logic into BuildTarget for the cython case.
2022-03-22docs/rust: fix markdown titleDylan Baker1-1/+1
VSCode is perfectly happy with the trailing `---`, hotdoc only likes `...` apparently.
2022-03-22interpreter: Make compiler options per-subprojectXavier Claessens2-0/+15
2022-03-22Add ability to add resources to jarsTristan Partin1-0/+34
Previously Meson lacked the ability to add resources to jar files. Fixes #9945
2022-03-21Prepare the 0.62.0 release.0.62.0Jussi Pakkanen32-371/+409
2022-03-15Revert "devenv: Set PYTHONPATH where we install python modules"Eli Schwartz2-15/+0
This reverts commit 79c6075b560dbf1c3e4e0b30f1c472dc2086421e. # Conflicts: # docs/markdown/snippets/devenv.md # mesonbuild/modules/python.py # test cases/unit/91 devenv/test-devenv.py PYTHONPATH cannot be reliably determined. The standard use case for installing python modules with Meson is mixed pure sources (at least `__init__.py`) and compiled extension_modules or configured files. Unfortunately that doesn't actually work because python will not load the same package hierarchy from two different directories, one a source directory and one a (mandatory) out of tree build directory. (It kind of can, but you need to do what this test case accidentally stumbled upon, which is namespace packages. Namespace packages are a very specific use case and you are NOT SUPPOSED to use them outside that use case, so people are not going to use them just to circumvent Meson devenv stuff as that would have negative install-time effects.) Adding PYTHONPATH anyway will just lead to documentation commitments which we cannot actually uphold, and confusing issues at time of use because some imports *will* work... and some will *not*. The end result will be a half-created tree of modules which just doesn't work together at all, but because it partially works, users attempting to debug it will spend time wondering why parts of it do import. For any case where the automatic devenv would work correctly, it will also work correctly to use `meson.add_devenv()` a single time, which is very easy to manually get correct and doesn't provide any significant value to automate. In the long run, an uninstalled python package environment will require "editable installs" support.
2022-03-13Merge pull request #9339 from dcbaker/submit/structured_sourcesJussi Pakkanen2-0/+82
Structured Sources
2022-03-09Add new env2mfile command.Jussi Pakkanen2-0/+69
2022-03-09Move dataonly pkgconfig file to datadir/pkgconfigTristan Partin1-0/+4
dataonly files are architecture independent (lib vs lib64 for example). Fixes #9902
2022-03-09install: Add --strip optionXavier Claessens1-0/+5
2022-03-08Revert "Add new env2cross command."Eli Schwartz1-40/+0
This reverts commit e257a870fe5e676c55a2282b0e7fc9be34bba2ac. The PR adding this command had infinitely hanging CI, and now that it is merged to master we cannot get any CI on any PR to succeed.
2022-03-08Add new env2cross command.Jussi Pakkanen1-0/+40
2022-03-07docs: add forgotten documentation for the new openssl dependencyEli Schwartz2-0/+17
2022-03-07Add support for rust proc-macro cratesDylan Baker1-0/+16
2022-03-07docs: Add a document on using Rust in MesonDylan Baker1-0/+56
This is hardly complete, but it's a start.
2022-03-07docs: Add docs for structured_sourcesDylan Baker1-0/+26
2022-03-06find_program: add a version() method to match the one for dependenciesEli Schwartz1-0/+5
It is often useful to check the found version of a program without checking whether you can successfully find `find_program('foo', required: false, version: '>=XXX')`
2022-03-06i18n.merge_file: do not disable in the absence of gettext toolsEli Schwartz1-0/+15
Disabling targets because the tools used to build them aren't available is a pretty suspicious thing to do. Users who want this are probably, in general, advised to check themselves whether it is possible to build those targets with find_program(..., required: false) The i18n.gettext() invocation is a bit unusual because the product of running it is non-critical files, specifically, translation catalogs. If users don't have the tools needed to build them, they may not be able to use them either, because perhaps they have NLS disabled on their platform or it's difficult to put it in the bootstrap path. So, for this reason, it was made non-fatal and the message catalogs are just not created, and the resulting build is still perfectly usable *unless* you want to use it in another language, at which point it "works" but the text is all inscrutable to the end user, and that's a feature of the target platform. That's an acceptable tradeoff for translation catalogs. It is NOT an acceptable tradeoff for merge_file, which produces desktop files or MIME database catalogs or other files which have crucial roles to perform, without which the software in question simply doesn't work at all. In such cases, this just fails to install crucial files, users report bugs to the project in question, and the project adds `find_program('xgettext')` to guarantee the hard error due to lack of confidence in Meson. Fixes #6165 Fixes #8436
2022-03-06wayland module: Allow building both client and server sidesXavier Claessens1-12/+20
- Change `scope` kwarg to `public` boolean default to false. - Change `side` kwarg to `client` and `server` booleans. - Document returned values - Aggregate in a single unit test because have lots of small tests increases CI time. Fixes: #10040.
2022-03-04[skip ci] fix syntax typoDarren Ng1-1/+1
2022-03-04Add modules kwarg to JNI system depTristan Partin2-3/+24
This allows someone to link against libjvm.so and libjawt.so.
2022-03-03add release snippet for declare_dependencyRemi Thebault1-0/+14
2022-03-03Document D features in `declare_dependency`Remi Thebault1-0/+17
2022-03-02Rename JDK system dep to JNITristan Partin3-8/+28
JNI is a more apt name because it currently only supports the JNI. I also believe that CMake uses the terminology JNI here as well. JNI is currently the only way to interact with the JVM through native code, but there is a project called "Project Panama" which aims to be another way for native code to interact with the JVM.
2022-03-01Deprecate java.generate_native_header() in favor of ↵Tristan Partin2-1/+80
java.generate_native_headers() After implementing a much more extensive Java native module than what currently exists in the tests, I found shortcomings. 1. You need to be able to pass multiple Java files. 2. Meson needs more information to better track the generated native headers. 3. Meson wasn't tracking the header files generated from inner classes. This new function should fix all the issues the old function had with room to grow should more functionality need to be added. What I implemented here in this new function is essentially what I have done in the Heterogeneous-Memory Storage Engine's Java bindings.
2022-02-28Allow setting method/separator in environment() and meson.add_devenv()Xavier Claessens1-0/+20
2022-02-28devenv: Add --dump optionXavier Claessens1-0/+5
It prints all envorinmente variables that have been modified. Can be used by shell scripts that wish to setup their environment themself.
2022-02-28devenv: Setup GDB auto-load scriptsXavier Claessens2-0/+15
When the project instals GDB helper scripts, copy them into meson-private directory with the right tree layout and write a .gdbinit script to load them automatically.
2022-02-28devenv: Source bash completion scriptsXavier Claessens2-0/+8
2022-02-28devenv: Set PYTHONPATH where we install python modulesXavier Claessens2-0/+14
2022-02-28Change jar() default install dirTristan Partin1-0/+5
The previous install dir seemed incorrect when looking at various Linux distributions.
2022-02-28docs: correct the shaderc documentationDudemanguy1-5/+11
The documentation on how shaderc is checked in meson was quite behind. Update it to mention that pkg-config is the default and preferred method of checking. Also be specific about what order everything is checked in since shaderc is confusing.
2022-02-27modules/wayland: Add unstable_wayland moduleMark Bolhuis3-0/+69
2022-02-27cmake: configure_package_config_file can now take a dictAndrea Pappacoda2-0/+6
2022-02-22python module: add option to specify a python environment to install toEli Schwartz2-4/+25
The default behavior of installing relative to prefix may be unexpected, and is definitely wrong in many cases. Give users control in order to specify that yes, they actually want to install to a venv. This is particularly useful for projects that use meson as a build system for a python module, where *all* files shall be installed into the python site-packages.
2022-02-15fix missing documentation for testsuite option in test.jsonEli Schwartz1-0/+5
stdout line matching supports count since commit 66d62a224e92c41d6012dc6c23912a965da4da8f to fail if certain output is present (count: 0) but it was never documented in the contribution guidelines.
2022-02-15pkgconfig module: allow custom variables to reference builtin directoriesEli Schwartz1-0/+31
Automatically generate additional variables and write them into the generated pkg-config file. This means projects no longer need to manually define the ones they use, which is annoying for dataonly usages (it used to forbid setting the base library-relevant "reserved" ones, and now allows it only for dataonly. But it's bloat to manualy list them anyway). It also fixes a regression in commit 248e6cf4736ef9ec636228da66c28f9be03aa74f which caused libdir to not be set, and to be unsettable, if the pkg-config file has no libraries but uses the ${libdir} expansion in a custom variable. This could be considered likely a case for dataonly, but it's not guaranteed.
2022-02-10implement 'dist --allow-dirty' flagandy59952-0/+15
closes #9824
2022-02-10Contributing.md: fix typoAlyssa Ross1-1/+1
2022-02-09meson: Allow directory options outside of prefixJan Tojnar2-1/+15
This bring us in line with Autotools and CMake and it is useful for platforms like Nix, which install projects into multiple independent prefixes. As a consequence, `get_option` might return absolute paths for some directory options, if a directory outside of prefix is passed. This is technically a backwards incompatible change but its effect should be minimal, thanks to widespread use of `join_paths`/`/` operator and pkg-config generator module. It should only cause an issue when a path were constructed by concatenating the value of directory path option. Also remove a comment about commonpath since we do not use that since <https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/commit/00f5dadd5b7d71c30bd7393d165a87f554eb92e5>. Fixes: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2561
2022-02-03cmake: Deprecate CMake <3.17 supportDaniel Mensinger1-0/+4
2022-02-03cmake: Drop CMake server support and bump min. CMake to >= 3.14Daniel Mensinger1-0/+9
2022-02-02Merge pull request #9834 from bonzini/test-verbose-kwargJussi Pakkanen1-0/+6
New keyword argument `verbose` for tests and benchmarks
2022-02-02Genericise TI compiler and add MSP430 supportWilliam Toohey2-1/+12
2022-02-01cmake: add arch_independent kwargAndrea Pappacoda2-1/+10
CMake's write_basic_package_version_file has supported since version 3.14 an ARCH_INDEPENDENT option that makes it skip its architecture check in the Version file. With this patch Meson now supports it as well, and the change is also compatible with older CMake versions, as they will simply ignore the option. This also slightly changes the contents of the generated Version file when arch_independent is not set: previously, the if() needed to skip the arch check was always filled with an empty string, while CMake puts "FALSE" (or "TRUE") in it. Now, that if() will always be filled with either "False" or "True", better matching CMake's behaviour.
2022-02-01minstall: stop running ldconfig for the userEli Schwartz1-0/+5
This was a nice idea in theory, but in practice it had various problems: - On the only platform where ldconfig is expected to be run, it is really slow, even when the user uses a non-default prefix and ldconfig doesn't even have permission to run, nor can do anything useful due to ld.so.conf state - On FreeBSD, it bricked the system: #9592 - On cross builds, it should not be used and broke installing, because ldconfig may not be runnable without binfmt + qemu: #9707 - it prints weird and confusing errors in the common "custom prefix" layout: #9241 Some of these problems can be or have been fixed. But it's a constant source of footguns and complaints and for something that was originally supposed to be just "it's the right thing to do anyway, so just do it automatically" it is entirely too risky. Ultimately I do not think there is justification for keeping this feature in since it doesn't actually make everyone happy. Better for users to decide whether they need this themselves. This is anyways the case for cmake and autotools and generally any other build system, so it should not be too intimidating... Fixes #9721
2022-02-01Updated precompiled library documentationGuillaume Quenneville1-0/+8
Fix link, change wording