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| author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2022-12-19 13:31:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com> | 2023-01-04 09:44:32 -0800 |
| commit | 8d2940024bd16919bf7772334dd0048604abecfb (patch) | |
| tree | ea1e632bf53aa68b7328cf4dcb120a1e51969553 /docs | |
| parent | 5ef824b2f3649bde1239d4b23c2bd20ecea795cf (diff) | |
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allow passing generated objects in the "objects" keyword argument
Generated objects can already be passed in the "objects" keyword argument
as long as you go through an extract_objects() indirection. Allow the
same even directly, since that is more intuitive than having to add them
to "sources".
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/snippets/gen_objects.md | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/yaml/functions/_build_target_base.yaml | 7 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/gen_objects.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/gen_objects.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fecd701 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/gen_objects.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +## Generated objects can be passed in the `objects:` keyword argument + +In previous versions of Meson, generated objects could only be +passed as sources of a build target. This was confusing, therefore +generated objects can now be passed in the `objects:` keyword +argument as well. diff --git a/docs/yaml/functions/_build_target_base.yaml b/docs/yaml/functions/_build_target_base.yaml index 46eedc1..767c4da 100644 --- a/docs/yaml/functions/_build_target_base.yaml +++ b/docs/yaml/functions/_build_target_base.yaml @@ -194,8 +194,11 @@ kwargs: type: list[extracted_obj | file | str] description: | List of object files that should be linked in this target. - These can include third party products you don't have source to, - or object files produced by other build targets. + + **Since 1.1.0** this can include generated files in addition to + object files that you don't have source to or that object files + produced by other build targets. In earlier release, generated + object files had to be placed in `sources`. name_prefix: type: str | list[void] |