compilers: Return CompilerArgs from compiler instance

Since the CompileArgs class already needs to know about the compiler,
and we really need at least per-lanaguage if not per-compiler
CompilerArgs classes, let's get the CompilerArgs instance from the
compiler using a method.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/clike.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/clike.py
index b32ac29..455fbe2 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/clike.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/clike.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from ... import arglist
 from ... import mesonlib
 from ... import mlog
+from ...arglist import CompilerArgs
 from ...mesonlib import LibType
 from .. import compilers
 from .visualstudio import VisualStudioLikeCompiler
@@ -40,6 +41,18 @@ if T.TYPE_CHECKING:
     from ...environment import Environment
 
 
+class CLikeCompilerArgs(CompilerArgs):
+    prepend_prefixes = ('-I', '-L')
+    dedup2_prefixes = ('-I', '-isystem', '-L', '-D', '-U')
+
+    # NOTE: not thorough. A list of potential corner cases can be found in
+    # https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/4593#pullrequestreview-182016038
+    dedup1_prefixes = ('-l', '-Wl,-l', '-Wl,--export-dynamic')
+    dedup1_suffixes = ('.lib', '.dll', '.so', '.dylib', '.a')
+
+    dedup1_args = ('-c', '-S', '-E', '-pipe', '-pthread')
+
+
 class CLikeCompiler:
 
     """Shared bits for the C and CPP Compilers."""
@@ -62,6 +75,9 @@ class CLikeCompiler:
         else:
             self.exe_wrapper = exe_wrapper.get_command()
 
+    def compiler_args(self, args: T.Optional[T.Iterable[str]] = None) -> CLikeCompilerArgs:
+        return CLikeCompilerArgs(self, args)
+
     def needs_static_linker(self):
         return True # When compiling static libraries, so yes.
 
@@ -339,7 +355,7 @@ class CLikeCompiler:
         elif not isinstance(dependencies, list):
             dependencies = [dependencies]
         # Collect compiler arguments
-        cargs = arglist.CompilerArgs(self)
+        cargs = self.compiler_args()
         largs = []
         for d in dependencies:
             # Add compile flags needed by dependencies