1 dnl visibility.m4 serial 1 (gettext-0.15)
2 dnl Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
4 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
5 dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
9 dnl Modified for use in wxWidgets by Vaclav Slavik:
10 dnl - don't define HAVE_VISIBILITY (=0) if not supported
11 dnl - use -fvisibility-inlines-hidden too
12 dnl - test in C++ mode
14 dnl Tests whether the compiler supports the command-line option
15 dnl -fvisibility=hidden and the function and variable attributes
16 dnl __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) and
17 dnl __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))).
18 dnl Does *not* test for __visibility__("protected") - which has tricky
19 dnl semantics (see the 'vismain' test in glibc) and does not exist e.g. on
21 dnl Does *not* test for __visibility__("internal") - which has processor
22 dnl dependent semantics.
23 dnl Does *not* test for #pragma GCC visibility push(hidden) - which is
24 dnl "really only recommended for legacy code".
25 dnl Set the variable CFLAG_VISIBILITY.
26 dnl Defines and sets the variable HAVE_VISIBILITY.
28 AC_DEFUN([WX_VISIBILITY],
30 AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC])
31 if test -n "$GCC"; then
32 CFLAGS_VISIBILITY="-fvisibility=hidden"
33 CXXFLAGS_VISIBILITY="-fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
34 AC_MSG_CHECKING([for symbols visibility support])
35 AC_CACHE_VAL(wx_cv_cc_visibility, [
36 wx_save_CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS"
37 CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $CXXFLAGS_VISIBILITY"
41 /* we need gcc >= 4.0, older versions with visibility support
42 didn't have class visibility: */
43 #if defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ < 4
44 error this gcc is too old;
47 /* visibility only makes sense for ELF shared libs: */
48 #if !defined(__ELF__) && !defined(__APPLE__)
49 error this platform has no visibility;
52 extern __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) int hiddenvar;
53 extern __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))) int exportedvar;
54 extern __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) int hiddenfunc (void);
55 extern __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))) int exportedfunc (void);
56 class __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))) Foo {
61 wx_cv_cc_visibility=yes,
62 wx_cv_cc_visibility=no)
64 CXXFLAGS="$wx_save_CXXFLAGS"])
65 AC_MSG_RESULT([$wx_cv_cc_visibility])
66 if test $wx_cv_cc_visibility = yes; then
67 dnl we do have basic visibility support, now check if we can use it:
69 dnl Debian/Ubuntu's gcc 4.1 is affected:
70 dnl https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.1/+bug/109262
71 AC_MSG_CHECKING([for broken libstdc++ visibility])
72 AC_CACHE_VAL(wx_cv_cc_broken_libstdcxx_visibility, [
73 wx_save_CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS"
74 wx_save_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
75 CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $CXXFLAGS_VISIBILITY"
76 LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -shared -fPIC"
83 std::string s("hello");
86 wx_cv_cc_broken_libstdcxx_visibility=no,
87 wx_cv_cc_broken_libstdcxx_visibility=yes)
89 CXXFLAGS="$wx_save_CXXFLAGS"
90 LDFLAGS="$wx_save_LDFLAGS"])
91 AC_MSG_RESULT([$wx_cv_cc_broken_libstdcxx_visibility])
93 if test $wx_cv_cc_broken_libstdcxx_visibility = yes; then
94 AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether we can work around it])
95 AC_CACHE_VAL(wx_cv_cc_visibility_workaround, [
99 #pragma GCC visibility push(default)
101 #pragma GCC visibility pop
104 std::string s("hello");
107 wx_cv_cc_visibility_workaround=no,
108 wx_cv_cc_visibility_workaround=yes)
111 AC_MSG_RESULT([$wx_cv_cc_visibility_workaround])
113 if test $wx_cv_cc_visibility_workaround = no; then
114 dnl we can't use visibility at all then
115 wx_cv_cc_visibility=no
120 if test $wx_cv_cc_visibility = yes; then
121 AC_DEFINE([HAVE_VISIBILITY])
122 if test $wx_cv_cc_broken_libstdcxx_visibility = yes; then
123 AC_DEFINE([HAVE_BROKEN_LIBSTDCXX_VISIBILITY])
127 CXXFLAGS_VISIBILITY=""
129 AC_SUBST([CFLAGS_VISIBILITY])
130 AC_SUBST([CXXFLAGS_VISIBILITY])