I've encountered some projects which uses meson to organize their building system. But when I want to debug their building system, I found it's difficult. The most important task is observing the b...

Here is my project structure: . ├── include ├── src │   ├── abc │   │   ├── include │   │   └── src │   ├── def │   │   ├── include │   │   └── src │   └── ghi │   ├── include │   └── src └── ven...

My application uses a Glade file and also cached data in a JSON file. When I do the following, everything works okay as long as the user installs the application with ninja install #Install cache...

I want to pass "-DDEBUG" to the C++ compiler when the build type starts with "debug", something like this: if meson.build_type().starts_with('debug') add_global_arguments('-DDEBUG', language : 'c...

I'm trying to build a c++ project with Meson. The thing is, I have some libraries under /opt/conda but can't figure out how to link the project when running meson build. It seems to be only search...

When I try to run Meson, It complains that it can't find Ninja v1.8.2 or newer. I ran this: meson build-debug This resulted in the error explained above. I have the latest tools: Ninja v1.10.2 Mes...

I am new to Meson so please forgive me if this is a stupid question. Simple Version of the Question: I want to be able to assign a dynamic version number to the meson project version at build time....

I use meson 0.53.2 on ubuntu 20.04. I would like to have a maximally optimized executable (-Ofast) but contain all debug symbols (-g3) If I use --buildtype=release it optimizes -O2 and the executa...

Is it possible to glob source code files in a meson build?

I checked out a gtk project inside a docker and during meson build found many dependencies are missing eg. libwayland-dev, libxrandr-dev... Because meson fails at the first missing dependency, I ha...

Is it possible for Meson to read the contents of a file into an array or a string? From here a string can be split into an array, and an array can be looped over with foreach, but I haven't been ab...

In meson build system, I want to get the include directories from a dependency: Simple example meson.build, using wxWidgets dependecy as example: project('project1', ['cpp']) wxdep = dependency(...

I'm trying to configure a project with meson. Specifically, I'm trying to set some of the options. meson config tells me, among other things: Core options: Option Current Value Possible Values Des...

I have a project that needs to be built like this: ./meson.py build ./ninja -C build install This works well. The only thing is: the binaries are stored in (on Linux): /usr/local/bin. This woul...

For my Meson project I have a dependency that is in an "unusual" place: /opt/MyDependence/lib/libmyLib.so /opt/MyDependence/include/myLib.hpp My meson file is: project('Test', ['cpp']) cpp = m...

How can I do in meson to run a command after building a target? Eg. I have an executable: executable('target.elf', 'source1.c', 'source2.c') And after target.elf built I want to execute a comman...

My project (in C) has a third party dependency at build time. But the third party library is, by default, installed to /opt/ instead of /lib, and I cannot find it in pkg-config. From mesonbuild's d...

I am attempting to build an application using meson, Gnome PasswordSafe. I have successfully built it on Arch, but have since moved to PureOS (Debian). When running: $ meson . _build --prefix=/...

I have recently started learning meson and I am testing switching to it (from CMake) in one of my projects. The problem is that I usually use cpack to build the project's packages/installers, and a...

I have a git repository with some test code in C++ and I want to use Googletest to write some tests. I used git submodule to get it as part of the above repository. I want to use meson as the build...

I am trying to configure my project to build with LLVM/clang++, however GCC is always picked: $ /opt/llvm/clang+llvm-7.0.1-x86_64-linux-gnu-ubuntu-18.04/bin/clang++ --version clang version 7.0.1 (...

Having read the Meson site pages (which are generally high quality), I'm still unsure about the intended best practice to handle different options for different buildtypes. So to specify a debug b...

I have a C++ application where I am using zero-arguments-variadic macros. However, I don't really like the standard conforming solution posted here on SO in various answers, but rather keep the GCC...

From Linux, I'm using Meson (0.44.0) within Gnome Builder (3.26.4) for a console program that will use Gee and GXml. My intent is to write this in Genie. When I use Meson within Gnome Builder it f...

I normally use Qt creator with cmake to program C++ projects. Lately I read quite a bit about meson and it's simplicity and I like to test it. This example explains how to setup meson. When using ...