bf1bb62e74 macOS: Restore support for LLVM/Clang without explicit CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !10734
In commit 7b19531291 (macOS: Do not pass any SDK/-isysroot to compilers
by default, 2024-11-06, v4.0.0-rc1~511^2) we broke support for using
upstream LLVM/Clang to build for macOS because the compiler has no
default sysroot. Handle empty `CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT` with LLVM/Clang by
falling back to the macOS SDK reported by `xcrun --show-sdk-path` .
Fixes: #26863
Previously we saved it in the cache, which:
* Persists even if a new version of CMake changes how the check works.
* Does not propagate to `try_compile` checks.
Add a variable to indicate the latest standard known to be supported for
each language:
* `CMAKE_C_STANDARD_LATEST`
* `CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_LATEST`
* `CMAKE_CUDA_STANDARD_LATEST`
* `CMAKE_HIP_STANDARD_LATEST`
* `CMAKE_OBJC_STANDARD_LATEST`
* `CMAKE_OBJCXX_STANDARD_LATEST`
These variables, more generally referred to as
`CMAKE_<LANG>_STANDARD_LATEST`, are assigned an integer value which
represents the minimum between the latest version of the associated
language standard supported by the current compiler and the latest
version supported by CMake.
Add documentation for these variables in a new page called
`CMAKE_<LANG>_STANDARD_LATEST` was added under the "Variables for
Languages" section of the `cmake-variables(7)` page.
Update each compiler-specific CMake script under
`${CMAKE_ROOT}\Modules\Compiler` to manually define the relevant
`CMAKE_<LANG>_STANDARD_LATEST` variable as necessary. This will
require updating and maintaining as newer compiler versions become
recognized by CMake.
Closes: #25717
Extract the effective linker during the computation of implicit artifacts
delivered by the compiler to the linker.
Define various variables describing the linker:
* CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_LINKER
* CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_LINKER_VERSION
* CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_LINKER_ID
* CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_LINKER_FRONTEND_VARIANT
This is complementary to feature introduced by commit 96a953b1ed
(Add options to specify linker tool, 2023-09-27).
Fixes: #17596, #18209, #25344
Offer the capability, through variable `CMAKE_LINKER_TYPE`, as well as
the target property `LINKER_TYPE` to specify which linker must be used.
The implementation of this capability is specified by variables specific
to the language and linker type: `CMAKE_<LANG>_USING_LINKER_<TYPE>`.
Some definitions are provided as part of `CMake`.
For example, to select the `LLVM` linker rather than the standard one,
the type `LLD` should be specified through the variable `CMAKE_LINKER_TYPE`.
And, on `Apple`, `Linux` and some environments on `Windows`, the variable
`CMAKE_<LANG>_USING_LINKER_LLD` has value `-fuse-ld=lld`. And for `Windows`
environments based on `MSVC`, where the linker is used directly, the tool
`lld-link.exe` will be used rather than `link.exe`.
Fixes: #19174, #24254, #24990
Add entries in Modules and Modules/Platform to support
Objective-C compiler determination and identification.
Add Modules to check Objective-C compiler flags, source
compilations, program checks, etc...
Use OBJC as the designator of the language, eg:
project(foo OBJC)
Add various tests for Objective-C language features. Add
tests to preserve C++ handling of .m and .mm files when
OBJC is not a configured language.
Co-Authored-By: Cristian Adam <cristian.adam@gmail.com>
Brad King