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| author | Xavier Claessens <xavier.claessens@collabora.com> | 2021-09-30 11:54:43 -0400 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2021-10-10 23:15:18 +0300 |
| commit | 928078982c8643bffd95a8da06a1b4494fe87e2b (patch) | |
| tree | 1e8e50892e5f329927d9196cea85e66801c1af03 /docs | |
| parent | 31bea202c9dc9d288d787f0073f0e221971669ba (diff) | |
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Add --vsenv command line option and active VS only when needed
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/vsenv.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/vsenv.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16e9424 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/vsenv.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +## Force Visual Studio environment activation + +Since `0.59.0`, meson automatically activates Visual Studio environment on Windows +for all its subcommands, but only if no other compilers (e.g. `gcc` or `clang`) +are found, and silently continue if Visual Studio activation fails. + +`meson setup --vsenv` command line argument can now be used to force Visual Studio +activation even when other compilers are found. It also make Meson abort with an +error message when activation fails. This is especially useful for Github Action +because their Windows images have gcc in their PATH by default. + +`--vsenv` is set by default when using `vs` backend. + +Only `setup`, `compile`, `dist` and `devenv` subcommands now activate Visual Studio. |