From a5e85627b04ed8d05ccccfaf0aac5f83ec6ace0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Admiral H. Curtiss" <pikachu025@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 14:26:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] cmake: Use Policy CMP0117 for more sensible RTTI flag
 configuration on MSVC.

---
 CMake/RemoveCompileFlag.cmake        | 16 +++++++++++++
 CMakeLists.txt                       | 34 +++++++++++++---------------
 Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt |  5 ++--
 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 CMake/RemoveCompileFlag.cmake

diff --git a/CMake/RemoveCompileFlag.cmake b/CMake/RemoveCompileFlag.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1bb9c167be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CMake/RemoveCompileFlag.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# from https://stackoverflow.com/a/49216539
+# The linked answer does some weird preconfiguring by manually splitting the CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS variable and applying it to a target,
+# but as far as I can tell none of that is necessary, this works just fine as-is.
+
+#
+# Removes the specified compile flag from the specified target.
+#   _target     - The target to remove the compile flag from
+#   _flag       - The compile flag to remove
+#
+macro(remove_cxx_flag_from_target _target _flag)
+    get_target_property(_target_cxx_flags ${_target} COMPILE_OPTIONS)
+    if(_target_cxx_flags)
+        list(REMOVE_ITEM _target_cxx_flags ${_flag})
+        set_target_properties(${_target} PROPERTIES COMPILE_OPTIONS "${_target_cxx_flags}")
+    endif()
+endmacro()
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 0bbb6d3b69..2428a093b1 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
 #
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)
 
+# Weird chicken-and-egg problem: We can't check the compiler before the project() call, but we have to set the policies before it.
+# So we do this in two steps: Set the policies if they exist, then error out afterwards if we end up being MSVC and they don't exist.
+if (POLICY CMP0117)
+  cmake_policy(SET CMP0091 NEW) # MSVC runtime library flags are selected by an abstraction.
+  cmake_policy(SET CMP0092 NEW) # MSVC warning flags are not in CMAKE_{C,CXX}_FLAGS by default.
+  cmake_policy(SET CMP0117 NEW) # MSVC RTTI flag will not be added by default.
+endif()
+
 # Minimum OS X version.
 # This is inserted into the Info.plist as well.
 
@@ -16,16 +24,15 @@ set(CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET "10.14.0" CACHE STRING "")
 
 set(CMAKE_USER_MAKE_RULES_OVERRIDE "CMake/FlagsOverride.cmake")
 
-# Optionally enable these polcies so older versions of cmake don't break.
-# we only need them for MSVC
-if(POLICY CMP0091)
-  cmake_policy(SET CMP0091 NEW) # MSVC runtime library flags are selected by an abstraction.
-  cmake_policy(SET CMP0092 NEW) # MSVC warning flags are not in CMAKE_{C,CXX}_FLAGS by default.
-endif()
-
 project(dolphin-emu)
 
 if (MSVC)
+  if (POLICY CMP0117)
+    # cmake is a weird language. You can't do if(not POLICY)
+  else()
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "Please update to CMake 3.20 or higher.")
+  endif()
+
   set(CMAKE_C_STANDARD 99)
   set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 23)
   set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
@@ -121,6 +128,7 @@ include(CheckAndAddFlag)
 include(CheckCCompilerFlag)
 include(CheckVendoringApproved)
 include(DolphinCompileDefinitions)
+include(RemoveCompileFlag)
 
 # Enable folders for IDE
 set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY USE_FOLDERS ON)
@@ -258,21 +266,11 @@ elseif(CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Visual Studio")
 endif()
 
 if(MSVC)
-  if(POLICY CMP0091)
-    # cmake is a weird language. You can't do if(not POLICY)
-  else()
-    # We really kind of want this policy
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "please update cmake to at least 3.15")
-  endif()
-
   check_and_add_flag(EXCEPTIONS /EHsc)
   dolphin_compile_definitions(_DEBUG DEBUG_ONLY)
 
   # Disable RTTI
-  # Unfortunately /GR is in the default compile flags for MSVC so we have to find and replace it.
-  foreach (flag CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_MINSIZEREL CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO)
-    string(REGEX REPLACE " /GR " " /GR- " ${flag} "${${flag}}")
-  endforeach()
+  add_compile_options(/GR-)
 
   # Set warning level 4 (the highest)
   add_compile_options(/W4)
diff --git a/Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt b/Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt
index 3398bb2695..3e19006952 100644
--- a/Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -394,9 +394,8 @@ if (MSVC)
 
   if ("${QT_VERSION_MAJOR}" GREATER_EQUAL 6)
     # Qt6 requires RTTI
-    foreach (flag CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_MINSIZEREL CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO)
-      string(REGEX REPLACE " /GR- " " /GR " ${flag} "${${flag}}")
-    endforeach()
+    remove_cxx_flag_from_target(dolphin-emu "/GR-")
+    target_compile_options(dolphin-emu PRIVATE "/GR")
   endif()
 endif()