Offer the capability, through variable `CMAKE_LINKER_TYPE`, as well as
the target property `LINKER_TYPE` to specify which linker must be used.
The implementation of this capability is specified by variables specific
to the language and linker type: `CMAKE_<LANG>_USING_LINKER_<TYPE>`.
Some definitions are provided as part of `CMake`.
For example, to select the `LLVM` linker rather than the standard one,
the type `LLD` should be specified through the variable `CMAKE_LINKER_TYPE`.
And, on `Apple`, `Linux` and some environments on `Windows`, the variable
`CMAKE_<LANG>_USING_LINKER_LLD` has value `-fuse-ld=lld`. And for `Windows`
environments based on `MSVC`, where the linker is used directly, the tool
`lld-link.exe` will be used rather than `link.exe`.
Fixes: #19174, #24254, #24990
Response files contained double-quote for any response file, but response files for wlink must contains single-quote. This is fix for libraries list response file. Problem for object file list was fixed by MR
!8115
Replace WATCOMQUOTE output format by UseWatcomQuote attribute to properly handle single quote
This attribute is used globaly only for Watcom linker to handle single-quote separator instead of double-quote
it doesn't mean different output format only change of quoting separator
It is now applied to any output form SHELL/RESPONSE/NINJAMULTI if Watcom linker is used otherwise double-quote is used
Currently, this feature is only supported on ELF platforms. So, the property
LINK_WHAT_YOU_USE will be ignored for other plateforms.
Moreover, flags and commands are now controled by CMake variables.
Fixes: #20174
Most calls to `MaybeConvertToRelativePath` use one of our common work
directories (e.g. top of the build tree) as the local path. Add helpers
for each of the common cases to simplify and clarify call sites.
For NVCC the compiler takes care of device linking when passed the "-dlink"
flag.
Clang doesn't support such magic and requires the buildsystem to do the work
that NVCC does behind the scenes.
The implementation is based on Bazel's device linking documentation:
7cabcdf073/third_party/nccl/build_defs.bzl.tpl (L259)Closes: #20726
properties LINK_OPTIONS and INTERFACE_LINK_OPTIONS are propagated
to the device link step.
To control which options are selected for normal link and device link steps,
the $<DEVICE_LINK> and $<HOST_LINK> generator expressions can be used.
Fixes: #18265
Since commit 0f150b69d3 (AIX: Explicitly compute shared object exports
for both XL and GNU, 2019-07-11, v3.16.0-rc1~418^2~2) we always export
all symbols from shared libraries by default. Add a new target property
called `AIX_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS` that can be explicitly set to OFF to
suppress this behavior and export no symbols by default.
Fixes: #20290
The unity build sources need to be added for all generators. Create
them during `cmGlobalGenerator::Compute` to avoid duplicating the calls
in every generator. We already handle Qt autogen there too.
Issue: #19789
Provide a standardized way to handle the C++ "standard" headers
customized to be used with current CMake C++ standard constraints.
Offer under directory `cm` headers which can be used as direct
replacements of the standard ones. For example:
#include <cm/string_view>
can be used safely for CMake development in place of the `<string_view>`
standard header.
Fixes: #19491
Set the MinTypeNameLength option to an impossibly high value in order
to limit the diagnostics to iterators. Leave new expressions and cast
expressions for later.
Previously the CMake didn't compute the required set of libraries
needed to properly device link a static library when
CUDA_RESOLVE_DEVICE_SYMBOLS was enabled.
This patch is generated by a python script that uses regular expressions to
search for string concatenation patterns of the kind
```
std::string str = <ARG0>;
str += <ARG1>;
str += <ARG2>;
...
```
and replaces them with a single `cmStrCat` call
```
std::string str = cmStrCat(<ARG0>, <ARG1>, <ARG2>, ...);
```
If any `<ARGX>` is itself a concatenated string of the kind
```
a + b + c + ...;
```
then `<ARGX>` is split into multiple arguments for the `cmStrCat` call.
If there's a sequence of literals in the `<ARGX>`, then all literals in the
sequence are concatenated and merged into a single literal argument for
the `cmStrCat` call.
Single character strings are converted to single char arguments for
the `cmStrCat` call.
`std::to_string(...)` wrappings are removed from `cmStrCat` arguments,
because it supports numeric types as well as string types.
`arg.substr(x)` arguments to `cmStrCat` are replaced with
`cm::string_view(arg).substr(x)`
Enables the clang-tidy test performance-inefficient-string-concatenation
and replaces all inefficient string concatenations with `cmStrCat`.
Closes: #19555
