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name: install_data
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returns: void
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Installs files from the source tree that are listed as positional arguments.
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See [Installing](Installing.md) for more examples.
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varargs:
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name: file
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type: file | str
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description: Files to install.
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kwargs:
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install_dir:
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type: str
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The absolute or relative path to the installation directory.
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If this is a relative path, it is assumed to be relative to the prefix.
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If omitted, the directory defaults to `{datadir}/{projectname}` *(since 0.45.0)*.
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install_mode:
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type: list[str | int]
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since: 0.38.0
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specify the file mode in symbolic format and
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optionally the owner/uid and group/gid for the installed files. For
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example:
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`install_mode: 'rw-r--r--'` for just the file mode
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`install_mode: ['rw-r--r--', 'nobody', 'nogroup']` for the file mode and the user/group
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`install_mode: ['rw-r-----', 0, 0]` for the file mode and uid/gid
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To leave any of these three as the default, specify `false`.
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install_tag:
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type: str
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since: 0.60.0
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A string used by the `meson install --tags` command
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to install only a subset of the files. By default these files have no install
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tag which means they are not being installed when `--tags` argument is specified.
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preserve_path:
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type: bool
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since: 0.64.0
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default: false
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description: |
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Disable stripping child-directories from data files when installing.
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This is equivalent to GNU Automake's `nobase` option.
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rename:
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type: list[str]
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since: 0.46.0
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If specified renames each source file into corresponding file from `rename` list.
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Nested paths are allowed and they are
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joined with `install_dir`. Length of `rename` list must be equal to
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the number of sources.
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sources:
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type: list[file | str]
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description: Additional files to install.
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