rustc: Implement -l and include! tweaks #18470
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This is an implementation of the rustc bits of RFC 403. This adds a new
flag to the compiler,
-l
, as well as tweaking theinclude!
macro (andrelated source-centric macros).
The compiler's new
-l
flag is used to link libraries in from the command line.This flag stacks with
#[link]
directives already found in the program. Thepurpose of this flag, also stated in the RFC, is to ease linking against native
libraries which have wildly different requirements across platforms and even
within distributions of one platform. This flag accepts a string of the form
NAME[:KIND]
whereKIND
is optional or one of dylib, static, or framework.This is roughly equivalent to if the equivalent
#[link]
directive were justwritten in the program.
The
include!
macro has been modified to recursively expand macros to allowusage of
concat!
as an argument, for example. The use case spelled out in RFC403 was for
env!
to be used as well to include compile-time generated files.The macro also received a bit of tweaking to allow it to expand to either an
expression or a series of items, depending on what context it's used in.
Closes #18473