Ability to specify a build target as both host and target?

[apache-hb]

Theres currently no way to specify a language/library/executable to be added/built for both native and target machines at the same time. This is causing me a lot of duplicate build declarations when wanting to do something such as running unit tests on the host machine then link the final executable for the target machine. Is there a common pattern to avoid this duplication?

[dcbaker]

Edit: Oh, you mean being able to do something like executable('blah', native : 'both')>

Could I interest you in: #12258?

Needs a rebase for 1.3 still

[apache-hb]

Edit: Oh, you mean being able to do something like executable('blah', native : 'both')>

something precisely like that, perhaps also for add_languages as right now not specifying native is a warning

[xclaesse]

@apache-hb currently that requires setupping 2 separate build directories. Allowing building for both platforms at the same time is something we want but is not easy to implement, @dcbaker has been working on that, at least for subprojects.

[dcbaker]

something precisely like that, perhaps also for add_languages as right now not specifying native is a warning

That I can help with: #12022