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'cflags' parameter is broken in gyp on OS X?

This is a barebones GYP file to compile 1 C source file. We are demonstrating that the cflags parameter in gyp files gets completely ignored :(

$ ../gyp/gyp -f make --depth=. hello.gyp
$ V=1 make
  cc   -fasm-blocks -mpascal-strings -Os -gdwarf-2  -MMD -MF out/Default/.deps/out/Default/obj.target/hello/hello.o.d.raw  -c -o out/Default/obj.target/hello/hello.o hello.c
  ./gyp-mac-tool flock out/Default/linker.lock g++ -Lout/Default   -o "out/Default/hello" out/Default/obj.target/hello/hello.o 
  LINK(target) out/Default/hello: Finished

We would expect a -ObjC flag to be present somewhere in the cc command, but it's not...

#include <stdio.h>
int main () {
printf("Hello\n");
return 0;
}
{
'targets': [
{
'target_name': 'hello',
'type': 'executable',
'cflags': [
'-ObjC'
],
'sources': [
'hello.c'
]
}
]
}
@paddybyers
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cflags only seems to be supported for Scons.

This works both with make and xcode generators on Mac:

{
  'targets': [
    {
      'target_name': 'hello',
      'type': 'executable',
      'xcode_settings': {
        'OTHER_CFLAGS': [
          '-ObjC'
        ],
      },
      'sources': [
          'hello.c'
      ]
    }
  ]
}

@TooTallNate
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Thanks @paddybyers. Indeed it seems that adding an xcode_settings block is the preferred way of doing this.

@indutny
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indutny commented Mar 28, 2012

Thanks, @google. I found this gist and fixed my problem: indutny/candor@40a27c8#diff-0

@zdne
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zdne commented Apr 4, 2013

This issues is still present. @paddybyers approach still works.

@karimcitoh
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Any solution of how to make cflags work on Windows?

@nitriques
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Still no solution to make it work on Windows ?

@mhirsch
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mhirsch commented Aug 30, 2017

This seems to work in linux now with node-gyp v3.6.2 (e.g. gyp pays attention to the cflags field)

@stiv-yakovenko
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How to make this brilliant utilty pass flag on linux?

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