# We use Python3 as it's the only thing guaranteed to be available on any platform Meson can run on (unlike Zlib in linuxlike/13 cmake dependency). project('user CMake find_package module using cmake_module_path', ['c', 'cpp'], meson_version: '>= 0.55.0') # NOTE: can't request Python3 via dependency('Python3', method: 'cmake') # Meson intercepts and wants "method: auto" # Try to find a dependency with a custom CMake module dependency('SomethingLikePython', required : true, method : 'cmake', cmake_module_path : 'cmake', modules: 'Python::Interpreter') dependency('SomethingLikePython', method : 'cmake', cmake_module_path : ['doesNotExist', 'cmake'], modules: 'Python::Interpreter') # Test a custom target with Python::Interpreter in COMMAND cm = import('cmake') op = cm.subproject_options() op.add_cmake_defines({'CMAKE_MODULE_PATH': meson.source_root() / 'cmake'}) sp = cm.subproject('cmMod', options: op) main = sp.target('main') test('main', main)