Uses the package version for the SONAME and full library version.
For linking, a pkg-config file is generated, and when building on
Windows, an import library is created that can be used with both
GCC and MSVC compilers.
On non-Windows platforms, all object files are compiled with -fPIC
to ensure compatibility with shared libraries.
On Windows use 'lib' prefix for library name with MinGW compiler
only. Other compiler like MSVC normally are not using any library
prefix.
The shared library is assumed to be ABI-stable within the same
major version, so the SONAME reflects only the major version
number.
When running `make check` on a UNIX-like operating system
with the specified `configure` option, `vvp` was unable to
find the required shared library.
This commit ensures that the runtime linker can locate the library.
This fixes issue #1313.
The vvp/ivl_dlfcn.h and cadpli/ivl_dlfcn.h files are essentially the
same, but have diverged a bit over the years. Merge them into a single
shared file at the top level. Use the static prefix for all inline
functins (currently only used in the cadpli version) as that will fix
issue #1301. We now require the compiler to support at least C99, so
can use "inline", not "__inline__".
The clang dlltool is not compatible with the binutils dlltool. However
both the clang and binutils linkers support reading the .def file and
creating the import library directly, so we no longer need to perform
the link in two stages.
We need to build libvvp with a suffix from the outset to ensure that
the vvp binary searches for the correct library file name once it is
installed.
Also Windows DLLs need to be stored in the same directory as the main
program, not in a separate lib directory.
Commit 95810b2f61 mistakenly added the suffix to the output file name
when linking the final vvp.exe binary. 'make check' and 'make install'
assume the suffix is only added when installing.
The tgt-vvp code generatpr outputs identifiers as quoted strings, and
because of this, escapes any " and \ characters (which may appear in
escaped indentifiers). We need to undo this when reading them into
vvp, so that the original name is seen by the VPI routines.
Ralf Habacker
Huang Rui
Martin Whitaker
Cary R
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)