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.TH MESON "1" "January 2016" "meson 0.29.0" "User Commands"
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.SH NAME
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meson - a high productivity build system
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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Meson is a build system designed to optimize programmer
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productivity. It aims to do this by providing simple, out-of-the-box
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support for modern software development tools and practices, such as
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unit tests, coverage reports, Valgrind, CCache and the like.
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Using Meson is simple and follows the common two-phase
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process of most build systems. First you run Meson to
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configure your build:
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.B meson [
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.I options
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.I source directory
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.I build directory
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.B ]
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Note that the build directory must be different from the source
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directory. Meson does not support building inside the source directory
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and attempting to do that leads to an error.
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After a successful configuration step you can build the source by
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running the actual build command in the build directory. The default
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backend of Meson is Ninja, which can be invoked like this.
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\fBninja [\fR \fItarget\fR \fB]\fR
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You only need to run the Meson command once: when you first configure
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your build dir. After that you just run the build command. Meson will
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autodetect changes in your source tree and regenerates all files
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needed to build the project.
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.SS "options:"
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.TP
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\fB\-\-version\fR
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print version number
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.TP
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\fB\-\-help\fR
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print command line help
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.SH SEE ALSO
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http://mesonbuild.com/
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