Meson® is a project to create the best possible next-generation build system. ####Dependencies - Python http://python.org (version 3.4 or newer) - Ninja http://martine.github.com/ninja/ ####Installing from source You can run Meson directly from a revision control checkout or an extracted tarball. Meson is also available from PyPi, so it can be installed with 'pip install meson'. ####Running Meson requires that you have a source directory and a build directory and that these two are different. In your source root must exist a file called 'meson.build'. To generate the build system run this command: `meson ` You can omit either of the two directories, and Meson will substitute the current directory and autodetect what you mean. This allows you to do things like this: `cd source_root; mkdir build; cd build; meson ..` `cd source_root; mkdir build; meson build` To compile, cd into your build directory and type `ninja`. To run unit tests, type `ninja test`. Install is the same but it can take an extra argument: `DESTDIR=/destdir/path ninja install` `DESTDIR` can be omitted. If you are installing to system directories, you may need to run this command with sudo. ####Contributing We love code contributions. See the contributing.txt file for details. IRC The irc channel for Meson is #mesonbuild over at freenode. ####Further info The home page of Meson can be found here: http://mesonbuild.com Meson is a registered trademark of Jussi Pakkanen