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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 7aa4bca..c3636b8 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -1567,6 +1567,11 @@ contains a target with the following methods: this and will also allow Meson to setup inter-target dependencies correctly. Please file a bug if that doesn't work for you. +- `[index]` returns an opaque object that references this target, and can be + used as a source in other targets. When it is used as such it will make that + target depend on this custom target, but the only source added will be the + one that corresponds to the index of the custom target's output argument. + ### `dependency` object This object is returned by [`dependency()`](#dependency) and contains diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/custom-target-index.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/custom-target-index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..10d7cf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/custom-target-index.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Can index CustomTaget objects + +The `CustomTarget` object can now be indexed like an array. The resulting +object can be used as a source file for other Targets, this will create a +dependency on the original `CustomTarget`, but will only insert the generated +file corresponding to the index value of the `CustomTarget`'s `output` keyword. + + c = CustomTarget( + ... + output : ['out.h', 'out.c'], + ) + lib1 = static_library( + 'lib1', + [lib1_sources, c[0]], + ... + ) + exec = executable( + 'executable', + c[1], + link_with : lib1, + ) |