[PATCH] src/meson: add module name_suffix as 'so'

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 05:03:45PM -0700, Scott Shambarger wrote:
> On 2020-08-22 15:45, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > 
> > Shouldn't it be fixed the other way? That is, it should know about
> > DLL, SO, or DYLIB extensions depending on the platform...
> > 
> 
> Well, there's a myriad of discussions regarding this on projects from glib
> to hexchat (and I read quite a few of them :)... basically, libtool has used
> .so for modules ("bundles" on MacOS) for 14 years, as does MacPorts and
> Homebrew -- it might just be easier to follow the crowd...

I don't think we want to keep compatibility with any libtool quirks. We
should do the right thing for the platform, and I think that means using
the platform native suffix for shared library modles correctly.

> 
> > Also, libvirtd would probably work on Cygwin or Midipix, which would
> > use DLL files...

We don't support Cygwin, only Mingw

> > 
> 
> There's more complexity there... since windows doesn't add the "lib" prefix,
> driver.c would need to handle that edge-case as well...
> 
> libvirtd has historically used ".so" on MacOS (via libtool).  Any
> "externally" installed drivers would break if that changed (are there any?).

We don't support any use of 3rd party modules.


Regards,
Daniel
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