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Cannot pass targets to generator( ) arguments

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#2,657 opened on Nov 20, 2017

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Description

cmd1 = executable(...)
cmd2 = executable(...)
generator(..., arguments: [cmd1, '--cmd2', cmd2, ...])

Results in:

A non-string object in "arguments" keyword argument.

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Research direction
Investigate the generator function implementation in Meson's source code to understand how arguments are validated, and modify the type checking to allow target objects (e.g., executable) as arguments.
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python
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