The Meson Build System
http://mesonbuild.com/
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# The Meson Build system |
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## Overview |
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Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, |
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and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible. |
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The main design point of Meson is that every moment a developer spends |
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writing or debugging build definitions is a second wasted. So is every |
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second spent waiting for the build system to actually start compiling |
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code. |
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## Features |
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* multiplatform support for Linux, macOS, Windows, GCC, Clang, Visual Studio and others |
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* supported languages include C, C++, D, Fortran, Java, Rust |
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* build definitions in a very readable and user friendly non-Turing complete DSL |
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* cross compilation for many operating systems as well as bare metal |
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* optimized for extremely fast full and incremental builds without sacrificing correctness |
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* built-in multiplatform dependency provider that works together with distro packages |
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* fun! |
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## Quickstart for beginners |
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Are you an absolute beginner when it comes to programming? No worries, |
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read [this beginner guide](SimpleStart.md) to get started. |
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## Community |
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The easiest way for most people to connect to other Meson developers is |
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a web chat. The channel to use is `#mesonbuild` either via Matrix ([web |
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interface](https://app.element.io/#/room/#mesonbuild:matrix.org)) or |
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[OFTC IRC](https://www.oftc.net/). |
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Other methods of communication include the [mailing |
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list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mesonbuild) (hosted by |
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Google Groups) and the |
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[Discussions](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/discussions) section |
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of the Meson GitHub repository. |
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### [Projects using Meson](Users.md) |
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Many projects are using Meson and they're |
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a great resource for learning what to (and what not to!) do when |
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converting existing projects to Meson. |
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[A short list of Meson users can be found here](Users.md) |
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but there are many more. We would love to hear about your success |
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stories too and how things could be improved too! |
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## Development |
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All development on Meson is done on the [GitHub |
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project](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson). Instructions for |
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contributing can be found on the [contribution page](Contributing.md). |
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You do not need to sign a CLA to contribute to Meson.
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