meson/docs/markdown/snippets/improved-meson-init.md

Autogeneration of simple meson.build files

A feature to generate a meson.build file compiling given C/C++ source files into a single executable has been added to "meson init". By default, it will take all recognizable source files in the current directory. You can also specify a list of dependencies with the -d flag and automatically invoke a build with the -b flag to check if the code builds with those dependencies.

For example,

meson init -fbd sdl2,gl

will look for C or C++ files in the current directory, generate a meson.build for them with the dependencies of sdl2 and gl and immediately try to build it, overwriting any previous meson.build and build directory.