mesonbuild / mesonbuild/meson

Add support for MSVC-based code coverage

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Description

This is quite new. It's supported on all VS editions (Community and others)

* https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Code-Coverage-for-VS-Professional/613911#T-N10967971
* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/fsanitize-coverage?view=msvc-170

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked Visual Studio Developer Community discussion and Microsoft MSVC /fsanitize-coverage documentation to understand the supported coverage behavior. Then locate Meson's existing code-coverage integration and tests; done means MSVC-based coverage is supported across the stated Visual Studio editions.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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