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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/link_language.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/link_language.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..28ebe8b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/link_language.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +## New target keyword argument: `link_language` +There may be situations for which the user wishes to manually specify the linking language. +For example, a C++ target may link C, Fortran, etc. and perhaps the automatic detection in Meson does not pick the desired compiler. +The user can manually choose the linker by language per-target like this example of a target where one wishes to link with the Fortran compiler: +```meson +executable(..., link_language : 'fortran') +``` + +A specific case this option fixes is where for example the main program is Fortran that calls C and/or C++ code. +The automatic language detection of Meson prioritizes C/C++, and so an compile-time error results like `undefined reference to main`, because the linker is C or C++ instead of Fortran, which is fixed by this per-target override. |