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short-description: Installing targets |
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# Installing |
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By default Meson will not install anything. Build targets can be installed by tagging them as installable in the definition. |
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```meson |
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project('install', 'c') |
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shared_library('mylib', 'libfile.c', install : true) |
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``` |
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There is usually no need to specify install paths or the like. Meson |
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will automatically install it to the standards-conforming location. In |
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this particular case the executable is installed to the `bin` |
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subdirectory of the install prefix. However if you wish to override the |
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install dir, you can do that with the `install_dir` argument. |
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```meson |
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executable('prog', 'prog.c', install : true, install_dir : 'my/special/dir') |
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``` |
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Other install commands are the following. |
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```meson |
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install_headers('header.h', subdir : 'projname') # -> include/projname/header.h |
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install_man('foo.1') # -> share/man/man1/foo.1.gz |
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install_data('datafile.dat', install_dir : join_paths(get_option('datadir'), 'progname')) # -> share/progname/datafile.dat |
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``` |
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Sometimes you want to copy an entire subtree directly. For this use case there is the `install_subdir` command, which can be used like this. |
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```meson |
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install_subdir('mydir', install_dir : 'include') # mydir subtree -> include/mydir |
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``` |
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Most of the time you want to install files relative to the install |
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prefix. Sometimes you need to go outside of the prefix (such as writing |
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files to `/etc` instead of `/usr/etc`. This can be accomplished by |
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giving an absolute install path. |
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```meson |
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install_data(sources : 'foo.dat', install_dir : '/etc') # -> /etc/foo.dat |
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``` |
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## Custom install behavior |
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Sometimes you need to do more than just install basic targets. Meson makes this easy by allowing you to specify a custom script to execute at install time. As an example, here is a script that generates an empty file in a custom directory. |
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```bash |
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#!/bin/sh |
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mkdir "${DESTDIR}/${MESON_INSTALL_PREFIX}/mydir" |
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touch "${DESTDIR}/${MESON_INSTALL_PREFIX}/mydir/file.dat" |
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``` |
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As you can see, Meson sets up some environment variables to help you write your script (`DESTDIR` is not set by Meson, it is inherited from the outside environment). In addition to the install prefix, Meson also sets the variables `MESON_SOURCE_ROOT` and `MESON_BUILD_ROOT`. |
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Telling Meson to run this script at install time is a one-liner. |
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```meson |
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meson.add_install_script('myscript.sh') |
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``` |
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The argument is the name of the script file relative to the current subdirectory. |
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## DESTDIR support |
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Sometimes you need to install to a different directory than the install prefix. This is most common when building rpm or deb packages. This is done with the `DESTDIR` environment variable and it is used just like with other build systems: |
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$ DESTDIR=/path/to/staging/area ninja install |
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```
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