mesonbuild/meson
Inconsistency between library suffix generated on windows and link name created when using dependency()
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#1,907 opened on Jun 6, 2017
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Description
Meson wants to create libraries with the style liblibname.a even on Windows. I can deal with that.
Note the following in the meson build.py source:
# By default a static library is named libfoo.a even on Windows because
# MSVC does not have a consistent convention for what static libraries
# are called. The MSVC CRT uses libfoo.lib syntax but nothing else uses
# it and GCC only looks for static libraries called foo.lib and
# libfoo.a. However, we cannot use foo.lib because that's the same as
# the import library. Using libfoo.a is ok because people using MSVC
# always pass the library filename while linking anyway.
However, when using a pkg-config dependency setup for the library, meson will try to link with libname.lib, not the liblibname.a that was created.
Summary: In project A: meson creates libs with liblibname.a format in C:/lib/ folder (when installed) a .pc file is created using the pkg.generate() command (although I have to manually change \ to /)
in Project B: I want to link with the library from project A. meson finds the .pc file ok however, generates link command -llibname.lib
These behaviours are inconsistent