How to bring in c_args via meson setup or native.ini? (without deprecation warnings)

[metaleap]

I want to set a preprocessor define only for my -Dbuildtype=debug Meson setup.

Since meson setup has no --c_args or some such, I figured I'd make a --native-file native.ini instead, which looked like this:

[properties]
c_args = ['-DSOMETHING']

This works but warns: DEPRECATION: c_args in the [properties] section of the machine file is deprecated, use the [built-in options] section.

However, changing the file to:

[built-in options]
c_args = ['-DSOMETHING']

gets rid of the warning but also no longer has -DSOMETHING applied in the newly-generated compile_commands.json.

Is that a typo in the warning message, or a bug, or something I'm not grokking? =)

[dcbaker]

On the command line:

meson setup -Dc_args=...`

meson setup builddir --native-file native.ini

does work for me. Did you do a clean build after changing the native file?

[metaleap]

Thx =)

meson setup builddir --native-file native.ini

does work for me. Did you do a clean build after changing the native file?

"does work" with [built-in options] or with [properties]? Yes to the fully clean build. Meson --version of 1.7.0.

To recap, it's not like that native-ini-file approach didn't work for me — with [properties] it did, as I mentioned — rather, I was wondering whether it could be made to also work without needing to use a "deprecated"-warning-emitting section/property combination =)