meson

The Meson Build System http://mesonbuild.com/

Thibault Saunier 1ea743a0bf hotdoc: Add documentation		6 years ago
ci	…
ciimage	modules: Add an 'hotdoc' module	6 years ago
cross	Added ARMCLANG compiler support for C/C++ (#3717 )	6 years ago
data	Test that vim syntax highlighting is up-to-date	6 years ago
docs	hotdoc: Add documentation	6 years ago
graphics	…
man	Remove long deprecated command scripts.	6 years ago
manual tests	Kill tabs dead! For good!	6 years ago
mesonbuild	docs: Use meson to build documentation	6 years ago
msi	Add upgrade support to the MSI generator. [skip ci]	6 years ago
test cases	modules: Add an 'hotdoc' module	6 years ago
tools	Add script to condense test directory names.	6 years ago
.appveyor.yml	Merge pull request #4004 from mesonbuild/nirbheek/console-entrypoint	6 years ago
.coveragerc	…
.editorconfig	…
.gitattributes	…
.gitignore	Ignore vim *.swp files [skip ci]	6 years ago
.mailmap	…
.travis.yml	Fix .travis.yml for updated OSX image	6 years ago
COPYING	…
MANIFEST.in	Add missing file to manifest. [skip ci]	6 years ago
README.md	…
__main__.py	Fix __main__.py for zipapp to work	6 years ago
contributing.md	…
ghwt.py	…
meson.py	meson.py: sys.path requires str, not pathlib.Path	6 years ago
run_cross_test.py	…
run_meson_command_tests.py	setup: Add tests for the installed files list	6 years ago
run_project_tests.py	Kill tabs dead! For good!	6 years ago
run_tests.py	cross: Be more permissive about not-found exe_wrapper	6 years ago
run_unittests.py	wraptool: fix manual selection of wrap file to promote	6 years ago
setup.cfg	setup.cfg: Don't warn about commented code	6 years ago
setup.py	setup: Add tests for the installed files list	6 years ago
sideci.yml	…
skip_ci.py	…

README.md

Meson® is a project to create the best possible next-generation build system.

Status

Dependencies

Python (version 3.5 or newer)
Ninja (version 1.5 or newer)

Installing from source

You can run Meson directly from a revision control checkout or an extracted tarball. If you wish you can install it locally with the standard Python distutils command python3 setup.py install <your options here>.

Meson is also available from PyPi, so it can be installed with pip3 install meson (this does not require a source checkout, pip will download the package automatically). The exact command to type to install with pip can vary between systems, be sure to use the Python 3 version of pip.

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 <source directory> <build directory>

Depending on how you obtained Meson the command might also be called meson.py instead of plain meson. In the rest of this document we are going to use the latter form.

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 builddir; cd builddir; meson ..

cd source_root; mkdir builddir; meson builddir

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

More information about the Meson build system can be found at the project's home page.

Meson is a registered trademark of Jussi Pakkanen