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| author | Michael Hirsch, Ph.D <10931741+scivision@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-05-02 16:26:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2019-05-02 23:26:51 +0300 |
| commit | 06bfc2dab61c5bf79265a8db777b02732ee86ecf (patch) | |
| tree | 0ed6065a804d972c950826b86e1241ed86b759ce /docs/markdown/snippets | |
| parent | 16463046b10818910da72d892d53663496179606 (diff) | |
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per-target manual specification of link_language
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/link_language.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/link_language.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..28ebe8b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/link_language.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +## New target keyword argument: `link_language` +There may be situations for which the user wishes to manually specify the linking language. +For example, a C++ target may link C, Fortran, etc. and perhaps the automatic detection in Meson does not pick the desired compiler. +The user can manually choose the linker by language per-target like this example of a target where one wishes to link with the Fortran compiler: +```meson +executable(..., link_language : 'fortran') +``` + +A specific case this option fixes is where for example the main program is Fortran that calls C and/or C++ code. +The automatic language detection of Meson prioritizes C/C++, and so an compile-time error results like `undefined reference to main`, because the linker is C or C++ instead of Fortran, which is fixed by this per-target override. |