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short-description: Converting other build systems to Meson
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# Build system converters
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Moving from one build system into another includes a fair bit of
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work. To make things easier, Meson provides scripts to convert other
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build systems into Meson. At the time of writing, scripts for CMake
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and autotools exist. It can be found in the `tools` subdirectory in
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Meson's source tree.
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The scripts do not try to do a perfect conversion. This would be
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extremely difficult because the data models of other build systems are
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very different. The goal of the converter script is to convert as much
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of the low level drudgery as possible. Using the scripts is
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straightforward. We'll use the CMake one as an example but the
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Autotools one works exactly the same way.
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cmake2meson.py path/to/CMake/project/root
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This command generates a skeleton Meson project definition that tries
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to mirror CMake's setup as close as possible. Once this is done, you
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need to go through these files manually and finalize the
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conversion. To make this task as simple as possible, the converter
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script will transfer all comments from the CMake definition into Meson
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definition.
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