Currently, when we want to add unit tests for code that is compiled into
an executable, we either compile the code at least twice (once for the
executable, and once for each test that uses it) or we create a static
library which is then used by both the executable and all the tests.
Both of these options are not ideal, compiling source files more than
once slows down the build for no reason and creating the intermediate
static libraries takes a lot of boilerplate.
Instead, let's use the extract_objects() method that meson exposes on
build targets. This allows us to extract the objects corresponding to
specific source files and use them in other executables. Because we
define all executables upfront into a dictionary, we integrate this into
the dictionary approach by adding two new fields:
- 'extract' takes a list of files for which objects should be extracted.
The extracted objects are stored in a dict keyed by the executable name
from which they were extracted.
- 'objects' takes the name of an executable from which the extracted
objects should be added to the current executable.
One side effect of this approach is that we can't build test executables
anymore without building the main executable, so we stop building test
executables unless we're also building the main executable. This allows
us to switch to using subdir_done() in all of these subdirectories to skip
parsing them if the corresponding component is disabled.
These changes get me down from 2439 => 2403 ninja targets on a full rebuild
from scratch.
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