This function builds a simple test project using a combination of
Fortran and C (and optionally C++) to verify that the compilers are
compatible. The idea is to help projects report very early to users
that the compilers specified cannot mix languages.
We split the main detection logic into a Detect.cmake support module and
load it only when detection results are not already available. This
allows results computed by the main project to be used in try-compile
projects without recomputing them. The call to try_compile() need only
to pass FortranCInterface_BINARY_DIR through the CMAKE_FLAGS option.
This moves platform-independent SunPro compiler flags into separate
"Compiler/SunPro-<lang>.cmake" modules. Platform-specific flags are
left untouched.
The Borland librarian tool "tlib" requires that the output target name
be quoted if it contains the character '-' (and perhaps a few others).
This commit restores the use of the TARGET_QUOTED rule variable
replacement for this purpose. Otherwise no static library can have a
'-' in its name.
This problem was exposed by the 'Testing' test when it builds the
pcStatic library with the '-dbg' suffix.
IBM rebranded its VisualAge compiler to XL starting at version 8.0. We
use the compiler id "XL" for newer versions and "VisualAge" for older
versions. We now also recognize the "z/OS" compiler, which is distinct
from XL.
The CMAKE_Fortran_DEFINE_FLAG value applies to the IBM Fortran compilers
on all platforms. This moves the setting to the platform-independent
compiler information file.
Formerly, fixup_bundle was useful only on the Mac for making standalone bundle applications that could be drag-n-drop moved to anyplace in the file system. fixup_bundle is not just for the Mac any more. It will now analyze executable files on Windows and Linux, too, and copy necessary non-system dlls to the same folder that the executable is in. This should work with dlls that you build as part of your build and also with 3rd-party dlls as long as you give fixup_bundle the right list of directories to search for those dlls. Many thanks to Clinton Stimpson for his help in ironing out the details involved in making this work.
This is a new FortranCInterface.cmake module to replace the previous
prototype. All module support files lie in a FortranCInterface
directory next to it.
This module uses a new approach to detect Fortran symbol mangling. We
build a single test project which defines symbols in a Fortran library
(one per object-file) and calls them from a Fortran executable. The
executable links to a C library which defines symbols encoding all known
manglings (one per object-file). The C library falls back to the
Fortran library for symbols it cannot provide. Therefore the executable
will always link, but prefers the C-implemented symbols when they match.
These symbols store string literals of the form INFO:symbol[<name>] so
we can parse them out of the executable.
This module also provides a simpler interface. It always detects the
mangling as soon as it is included. A single macro is provided to
generate mangling macros and optionally pre-mangled symbols.
This stores CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER_SUPPORTS_F90 in the Fortran compiler
information file CMakeFiles/CMakeFortranCompiler.cmake instead of in
CMakeCache.txt. This file makes the result available to try-compile
projects.
The commit "Consider link dependencies for link language" taught CMake
to propagate linker language preference from languages compiled into
libraries linked by a target. It turns out this should only be done for
some languages, such as C++, because normally the language of the
program entry point (main) should be used.
We introduce variable CMAKE_<LANG>_LINKER_PREFERENCE_PROPAGATES to tell
CMake whether a language should propagate its linker preference across
targets. Currently it is true only for C++.
We set the variables to contain "-v", the verbose front-end output
option for PGI compilers. This enables detection of implicit link
libraries and directories for these compilers.
We set the variables to contain "-v", the verbose front-end output
option for Intel compilers. This enables detection of implicit link
libraries and directories for these compilers.
This teaches the implicit link line parsing code to recognize link lines
that do not have a full path to the linker executable. At least one
version of the Intel compiler on Linux invokes the linker as just "ld"
instead of "/usr/bin/ld".
The Sun Fortran compiler passes -zallextract and -zdefaultextract to the
linker so that all objects from one of its archives are included in the
link. This teaches the implicit options parser to recognize the flags.
We need to pass them explicitly on C++ link lines when Fortran code is
linked.
This removes the file-wise installation rules for Modules and Templates
and instead installs the whole directories. This approach is much less
error-prone. The old approach was left from before CMake had the
install(DIRECTORY) command.
Xcode adds extra link directories that point at the build tree, so
detection of implicit link directories is not reliable. Since Fortran
is not supported in Xcode we will not need implicit link information yet
anyway.
This teaches CMake to detect implicit link information for C, C++, and
Fortran compilers. We detect the implicit linker search directories and
implicit linker options for UNIX-like environments using verbose output
from compiler front-ends. We store results in new variables called
CMAKE_<LANG>_IMPLICIT_LINK_LIBRARIES
CMAKE_<LANG>_IMPLICIT_LINK_DIRECTORIES
The implicit libraries can contain linker flags as well as library
names.
This teaches the language configuration modules to load per-compiler
information for each language using the compiler id but no system name.
They look for modules named "Compiler/<id>-<lang>.cmake". Such modules
may specify compiler flags that do not depend on the platform.
Some SGI compilers define _SGI_COMPILER_VERSION in addition to the old
_COMPILER_VERSION preprocessor symbol. It is more distinctive, so we
should check it in case the old one is ever removed.
The SGI preprocessor /usr/lib/cpp produces bad output on this code:
#if 1
A
#elif 1
B
#else
C
#endif
Both 'A' and 'C' appear in the output! We work around the problem by
using '#elif 1' instead of '#else'.
This fixes detection of the SGI Fortran compiler id in -o32 mode.
Will Dicharry
David Cole
Brad King
Philip Lowman
Bill Hoffman
Ken Martin
Clinton Stimpson