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Backend agnostic compile command

A new meson compile command has been added to support backend agnostic compilation. It accepts two arguments, -j and -l, which are used if possible (-l does nothing with msbuild). A -j or -l value < 1 lets the backend decide how many threads to use. For msbuild this means -m, for ninja it means passing no arguments.

meson builddir --backend vs
meson compile -C builddir -j0  # this is the same as `msbuild builddir/my.sln -m`

meson builddir
meson compile -C builddir -j3  # this is the same as `ninja -C builddir -j3`

Additionally meson compile provides a --clean switch to clean the project.

A complete list of arguments is always documented via meson compile --help