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@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ like Meson, rather than Meson work more like rust.
## Functions
-### test(name: string, target: library | executable, dependencies: []Dependency, link_with: []targets, rust_args: []string)
+### test()
+
+```meson
+rustmod.test(name, target, ...)
+```
This function creates a new rust unittest target from an existing rust
based target, which may be a library or executable. It does this by
@@ -26,19 +30,18 @@ copying the sources and arguments passed to the original target and
adding the `--test` argument to the compilation, then creates a new
test target which calls that executable, using the rust test protocol.
-This accepts all of the keyword arguments accepted by the
-[[test]] function except `protocol`, it will set
-that automatically.
+This function takes two positional arguments, the first is the name of the
+test and the second is the library or executable that is the rust based target.
+It also takes the following keyword arguments:
-Additional, test-only dependencies may be passed via the `dependencies`
-argument.
+- `dependencies`: a list of test-only Dependencies
+- `link_with`: a list of additional build Targets to link with (*since 1.2.0*)
+- `rust_args`: a list of extra arguments passed to the Rust compiler (*since 1.2.0*)
-*(since 1.2.0)* the `link_with` argument can be used to pass additional build
-targets to link with
-*(since 1.2.0)* the `rust_args` keyword argument can be used to pass extra
-arguments to the Rust compiler.
+This function also accepts all of the keyword arguments accepted by the
+[[test]] function except `protocol`, it will set that automatically.
-### bindgen(*, input: string | BuildTarget | [](string | BuildTarget), output: string, include_directories: [](include_directories | string), c_args: []string, args: []string, dependencies: []Dependency)
+### bindgen()
This function wraps bindgen to simplify creating rust bindings around C
libraries. This has two advantages over invoking bindgen with a
@@ -51,14 +54,14 @@ libraries. This has two advantages over invoking bindgen with a
It takes the following keyword arguments
-- `input` — A list of Files, Strings, or CustomTargets. The first element is
+- `input`: a list of Files, Strings, or CustomTargets. The first element is
the header bindgen will parse, additional elements are dependencies.
-- `output` — the name of the output rust file
-- `include_directories` — A list of `include_directories` or `string` objects,
+- `output`: the name of the output rust file
+- `include_directories`: A list of `include_directories` or `string` objects,
these are passed to clang as `-I` arguments *(string since 1.0.0)*
-- `c_args` — A list of string arguments to pass to clang untouched
-- `args` — A list of string arguments to pass to `bindgen` untouched.
-- `dependencies` — A list of `Dependency` objects to pass to the underlying clang call (*since 1.0.0*)
+- `c_args`: a list of string arguments to pass to clang untouched
+- `args`: a list of string arguments to pass to `bindgen` untouched.
+- `dependencies`: a list of `Dependency` objects to pass to the underlying clang call (*since 1.0.0*)
```meson
rust = import('unstable-rust')