Add has_link_argument() and friends

Closes: #3335.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py
index 4ed7a79..c45b252 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py
@@ -750,6 +750,11 @@ class Compiler:
             'Language {} does not support has_multi_arguments.'.format(
                 self.get_display_language()))
 
+    def has_multi_link_arguments(self, args, env):
+        raise EnvironmentException(
+            'Language {} does not support has_multi_link_arguments.'.format(
+                self.get_display_language()))
+
     def get_cross_extra_flags(self, environment, link):
         extra_flags = []
         if self.is_cross and environment:
@@ -805,7 +810,6 @@ class Compiler:
                 # Construct the compiler command-line
                 commands = CompilerArgs(self)
                 commands.append(srcname)
-                commands += extra_args
                 commands += self.get_always_args()
                 if mode == 'compile':
                     commands += self.get_compile_only_args()
@@ -815,6 +819,10 @@ class Compiler:
                 else:
                     output = self._get_compile_output(tmpdirname, mode)
                     commands += self.get_output_args(output)
+                # extra_args must be last because it could contain '/link' to
+                # pass args to VisualStudio's linker. In that case everything
+                # in the command line after '/link' is given to the linker.
+                commands += extra_args
                 # Generate full command-line with the exelist
                 commands = self.get_exelist() + commands.to_native()
                 mlog.debug('Running compile:')