Dylan Baker

Results 133 issues of Dylan Baker

The current state is that the tool doing the lookup needs to know what platform it is running for to know if it needs to point at `Link-Location` or `Location`,...

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One of the pain points of pkg-config is that specifying that a pkg-config dependency that has a non-pkg-config dependency is really awful. You basically just say "here's some -I -l...

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need discussion

CPS has reached the point of maturity that if it's going to displace systems like pkg-config, it needs to move to a community model of changes. Right now there are...

Meson doesn't have (by design) a way to generate debug and optimized targets in the same build, instead we would recommend two separate builds for that (we only have out...

help wanted
documentation

pkg-config has a "variables" section, where packages may place arbitrary data. Among uses of this, Qt uses this to communicate where it's put it's tools (which could be solved by...

Currently they're listed as a feature, and can include a limited subset of the language standards (they have c99 and gnu, which is annoying, It would be much nicer to...

For MSVC compiled packages it's important to know which crt to use, (single vs multi-threaded, debug vs not) I don't see a way to encode that currently (unless I've missed...

I work on open source projects, where it is common to have multiple copyright holders on a single file. So that top comment may look something like this: ```cxx //...

This allows fypp to communicate to build systems like Make and Ninja (including through build system generators like CMake and Meson) files that need to be implicitly included in the...

There are currently projects in the wild (I don't want to shame them), who are recommending this: ```meson custom_target( ... input : ['a.in', 'b.in', 'c.in'], output : '.' command :...