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+# Copyright 2020-2022 David Robillard <d@drobilla.net>
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 OR GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+# General definitions for building libraries.
+#
+# These are essentially workarounds for Meson/Windows/MSVC.  Unfortunately,
+# Meson's default_library option doesn't support shared and static builds very
+# well.  In particular, it's often necessary to define different symbols for
+# static and shared builds of libraries so that symbols can be exported.  To
+# work around this, default_library=both isn't supported on Windows.  On other
+# platforms with GCC-like compilers, we can support both because symbols can
+# safely be exported in the same way (giving them default visibility) in both
+# static and shared builds.
+
+default_library = get_option('default_library')
+host_system = host_machine.system()
+
+# Abort on Windows with default_library=both
+if host_system == 'windows' and default_library == 'both'
+  error('default_library=both is not supported on Windows')
+endif
+
+# Set library_suffix to the suffix for libraries
+if host_system == 'windows' and default_library == 'shared'
+  # Meson appends a version to the name only for DLLs, which leads to
+  # inconsistent library names, like `mylib-1-1`.  So, provide no suffix to
+  # ultimately get the same name as on other platforms, like `mylib-1`.
+  library_suffix = ''
+else
+  library_suffix = '-@0@'.format(meson.project_version().split('.')[0])
+endif