The Meson Build system The Meson Build system Overview Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible The main design point of Meson is that every moment a developer spends writing or debugging build definitions is a second wasted
The Absolute Beginners Guide to Installing and Using Meson Linux Installing Meson is just as simple as installing the compiler toolchain Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives: sudo apt install meson ninja-build Fedora, Centos, RHEL and derivatives: sudo dnf install meson ninja-build Arch: sudo pacman -S meson Windows Meson provides a standard Windows msi installer that can be downloaded from the Releases page
Manual - Meson Manual This is the user manual for Meson It currently tracks the state of Git head If you are using an older version, some of the information here might not work for you
Quickstart Guide - Meson Compiling a Meson project The most common use case of Meson is compiling code on a code base you are working on The steps to take are very simple $ cd path to source root $ meson setup builddir cd builddir $ meson compile $ meson test The only thing to note is that you need to create a separate build directory
Tutorial - Meson $ meson compile Once you have set up your build directory the first time, you don't ever need to run the meson command again You always just run meson compile Meson will automatically detect when you have done changes to build definitions and will take care of everything so users don't have to care In this case the following output is produced
Command-line commands - Meson Meson is invoked using the following syntax: meson [COMMAND] [COMMAND_OPTIONS] This section describes all available commands and some of their Optional arguments
Getting Meson Meson releases can be downloaded from the GitHub release page, and you can run meson py from inside a release or the git repository itself without doing anything special
Reference manual - Meson This is the root page of the online Meson reference manual This manual is also available in a more machine readable format as a JSON documented attached to every release since 0 60 0
Running Meson Running Meson There are two different ways of invoking Meson First, you can run it directly from the source tree with the command path to source meson py Second, Meson may also be installed in which case the command is simply meson In this manual we only use the latter format for simplicity At the time of writing only a command line version of Meson is available This means that Meson