project('custom target dependency', 'c') # Sometimes custom targets do not take input files # but instead do globbing or some similar wackiness. # In this case we need to be able to specify a # manual dependency between two custom targets, # if one needs to be run before the other. g1 = find_program('gen1.py') g2 = find_program('gen2.py') c1 = custom_target('medput', input : 'input.dat', output : 'medput.tmp', command : [g1, '@INPUT@', '@OUTPUT@']) custom_target('output', output : 'output.dat', command : [g2, '@OUTDIR@', '@OUTPUT@'], depends : c1)