dnl visibility.m4 serial 1 (gettext-0.15) dnl Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. dnl From Bruno Haible. dnl Modified for use in wxWidgets by Vaclav Slavik: dnl - don't define HAVE_VISIBILITY (=0) if not supported dnl - use -fvisibility-inlines-hidden too dnl - test in C++ mode dnl Tests whether the compiler supports the command-line option dnl -fvisibility=hidden and the function and variable attributes dnl __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) and dnl __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))). dnl Does *not* test for __visibility__("protected") - which has tricky dnl semantics (see the 'vismain' test in glibc) and does not exist e.g. on dnl MacOS X. dnl Does *not* test for __visibility__("internal") - which has processor dnl dependent semantics. dnl Does *not* test for #pragma GCC visibility push(hidden) - which is dnl "really only recommended for legacy code". dnl Set the variable CFLAG_VISIBILITY. dnl Defines and sets the variable HAVE_VISIBILITY. AC_DEFUN([WX_VISIBILITY], [ AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC]) if test -n "$GCC"; then CFLAGS_VISIBILITY="-fvisibility=hidden" CXXFLAGS_VISIBILITY="-fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" AC_MSG_CHECKING([for symbols visibility support]) AC_CACHE_VAL(wx_cv_cc_visibility, [ wx_save_CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS" CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $CXXFLAGS_VISIBILITY" AC_LANG_PUSH(C++) AC_TRY_COMPILE( [ /* we need gcc >= 4.0, older versions with visibility support didn't have class visibility: */ #if defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ < 4 error this gcc is too old; #endif /* visibility only makes sense for ELF shared libs: */ #if !defined(__ELF__) && !defined(__APPLE__) error this platform has no visibility; #endif /* at the time of Xcode 4.1 / Clang 3, Clang++ still didn't have the bugs sorted out: */ #if defined(__clang__) clang compiler is still broken w.r.t. visibility; #endif extern __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) int hiddenvar; extern __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))) int exportedvar; extern __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) int hiddenfunc (void); extern __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))) int exportedfunc (void); class __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))) Foo { Foo() {} }; ], [], wx_cv_cc_visibility=yes, wx_cv_cc_visibility=no) AC_LANG_POP() CXXFLAGS="$wx_save_CXXFLAGS"]) AC_MSG_RESULT([$wx_cv_cc_visibility]) if test $wx_cv_cc_visibility = yes; then dnl we do have basic visibility support, now check if we can use it: dnl dnl Debian/Ubuntu's gcc 4.1 is affected: dnl https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.1/+bug/109262 AC_MSG_CHECKING([for broken libstdc++ visibility]) AC_CACHE_VAL(wx_cv_cc_broken_libstdcxx_visibility, [ wx_save_CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS" wx_save_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $CXXFLAGS_VISIBILITY" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -shared -fPIC" AC_LANG_PUSH(C++) AC_TRY_LINK( [ #include ], [ std::string s("hello"); return s.length(); ], wx_cv_cc_broken_libstdcxx_visibility=no, wx_cv_cc_broken_libstdcxx_visibility=yes) AC_LANG_POP() CXXFLAGS="$wx_save_CXXFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$wx_save_LDFLAGS"]) AC_MSG_RESULT([$wx_cv_cc_broken_libstdcxx_visibility]) if test $wx_cv_cc_broken_libstdcxx_visibility = yes; then AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether we can work around it]) AC_CACHE_VAL(wx_cv_cc_visibility_workaround, [ AC_LANG_PUSH(C++) AC_TRY_LINK( [ #pragma GCC visibility push(default) #include #pragma GCC visibility pop ], [ std::string s("hello"); return s.length(); ], wx_cv_cc_visibility_workaround=no, wx_cv_cc_visibility_workaround=yes) AC_LANG_POP() ]) AC_MSG_RESULT([$wx_cv_cc_visibility_workaround]) if test $wx_cv_cc_visibility_workaround = no; then dnl we can't use visibility at all then wx_cv_cc_visibility=no fi fi fi if test $wx_cv_cc_visibility = yes; then AC_DEFINE([HAVE_VISIBILITY]) if test $wx_cv_cc_broken_libstdcxx_visibility = yes; then AC_DEFINE([HAVE_BROKEN_LIBSTDCXX_VISIBILITY]) fi else CFLAGS_VISIBILITY="" CXXFLAGS_VISIBILITY="" fi AC_SUBST([CFLAGS_VISIBILITY]) AC_SUBST([CXXFLAGS_VISIBILITY]) fi ])