gtk/meson.build: Fix linking on Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio 2013's linker does not suport `/WHOLEARCHIVE:`, so just
explicitly extract the objects from the static libraries that will
form the final GTK DLL.

diff --git a/gtk/meson.build b/gtk/meson.build
index 2bb41b03e7797d6df9f344909f235bc1117ac2ea..06f60f73160a58edb5711c364770b9db1fc6fa4f 100644 (file)
--- a/gtk/meson.build
+++ b/gtk/meson.build
@@ -1113,11 +1113,28 @@ libgtk_static = static_library('gtk',
   link_with: [libgtk_css, libgdk, libgsk ],
 )
 
+# `link_whole:` is actually only supported on Visual Studio 2015 Update 2
+# or later via the linker flag `/WHOLEARCHIVE:<static_lib>`, so we need
+# to work around it for Visual Studio 2013.  Note that all needed static
+# libs are required so that we grab the object files from each of them to
+# link the final GTK DLL.
+whole_archives = []
+gtk4_objs = []
+
+if cc.get_id() == 'msvc' and cc.version().split('.').get(0) < '19'
+  foreach target : [ libgtk_static, libgtk_css, libgdk, libgdk_win32, libgsk, libgsk_f16c ]
+    gtk4_objs += target.extract_all_objects(recursive: false)
+  endforeach
+else
+  whole_archives = [libgtk_static, libgtk_css, libgdk, libgsk ]
+endif
+
 libgtk = shared_library('gtk-4',
   c_args: gtk_cargs + common_cflags,
   include_directories: [confinc, gdkinc, gskinc, gtkinc],
   dependencies: gtk_deps + [libgtk_css_dep, libgdk_dep, libgsk_dep],
-  link_whole: [libgtk_static, libgtk_css, libgdk, libgsk ],
+  link_whole: whole_archives,
+  objects: gtk4_objs,
   link_args: common_ldflags,
   soversion: gtk_soversion,
   version: gtk_library_version,