environment: Static method to get gcc version from compiler defines

The method takes a dictionary with defines names as keys and the defines
values as values. From it, we assemble the gcc version, using 0 as a
default value if the define we want is not defined.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/environment.py b/mesonbuild/environment.py
index f7045f4..6d9a3a4 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/environment.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/environment.py
@@ -331,6 +331,13 @@ class Environment():
             if len(rest) == 2:
                 defines[rest[0]] = rest[1]
         return defines
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_gnu_version_from_defines(defines):
+        dot = '.'
+        major = defines.get('__GNUC__', '0')
+        minor = defines.get('__GNUC_MINOR__', '0')
+        patch = defines.get('__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__', '0')
+        return dot.join((major, minor, patch))
 
     @staticmethod
     def get_gnu_compiler_type(defines):