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| author | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2017-12-02 19:54:27 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-12-02 19:54:27 +0200 |
| commit | 793fc002fa3c414cee20b3b3a4397eeb3ce3d35e (patch) | |
| tree | 6d299980e2bdb44823e3dd109037241a5f8498df /docs/markdown/snippets | |
| parent | e1bdc098ca48990322b058e2a2a9fce16c3e7674 (diff) | |
| parent | c9351ce30c03d107279090da7825096951a705d3 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #2390 from dcbaker/submit/options-list
Add an array type to user options
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/option-array-type.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/option-array-type.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f073dc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/option-array-type.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +# An array type for user options + +Previously to have an option that took more than one value a string value would +have to be created and split, but validating this was difficult. A new array type +has been added to the meson_options.txt for this case. It works like a 'combo', but +allows more than one option to be passed. When used on the command line (with -D), +values are passed as a comma separated list. + +```meson +option('array_opt', type : 'array', choices : ['one', 'two', 'three'], value : ['one']) +``` + +These can be overwritten on the command line, + +```meson +meson _build -Darray_opt=two,three +``` |