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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index bd73678..0625f96 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -2070,6 +2070,10 @@ an external dependency with the following methods: - `found()` which returns whether the dependency was found + - `name()` *(Added 0.48.0)* returns the name of the dependency that was + searched. Returns `internal` for dependencies created with + `declare_dependency()`. + - `get_pkgconfig_variable(varname)` *(Added 0.36.0)* will get the pkg-config variable specified, or, if invoked on a non pkg-config dependency, error out. *(Added 0.44.0)* You can also redefine a diff --git a/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.48.0.md b/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.48.0.md index 270a689..80fc08b 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.48.0.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.48.0.md @@ -311,3 +311,24 @@ clone-recursive=true This allows you to declare an optional subproject. You can now call `found()` on the return value of the `subproject()` call to see if the subproject is available before calling `get_variable()` to fetch information from it. + +## `dependency()` objects now support the `.name()` method + +You can now fetch the name of the dependency that was searched like so: + +```meson +glib_dep = dependency('glib-2.0') +... +message("dependency name is " + glib_dep.name()) +# This outputs `dependency name is glib-2.0` + +qt_dep = dependency('qt5') +... +message("dependency name is " + qt_dep.name()) +# This outputs `dependency name is qt5` + +decl_dep = declare_dependency() +... +message("dependency name is " + decl_dep.name()) +# This outputs `dependency name is internal` +``` |