Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible.
Meson is an open-source build system designed to be both fast and user-friendly. Offering exceptional speed, ease of use, cross-platform support, extensibility, seamless integration with existing projects, and compatibility across multiple Python versions, Meson simplifies the build process for developers. It can be installed via winget for easy setup. Ideal for developers and organizations focused on performance and scalable software development, Meson streamlines build processes, reducing setup complexity and enhancing productivity.
README
Meson® is a project to create the best possible next-generation
build system.
Latest Meson version supporting previous Python versions:
Python 3.6: 0.61.5
Python 3.5: 0.56.2
Python 3.4: 0.45.1
Installing from source
Meson is available on PyPI, so
it can be installed with pip3 install meson. The exact command to
type to install with pip can vary between systems, be sure to use
the Python 3 version of pip.
If you wish you can install it locally with the standard Python command:
python3 -m pip install meson
For builds using Ninja, Ninja can be downloaded directly from Ninja
GitHub release page
or via PyPI
Meson requires that you have a source directory and a build directory
and that these two are different. In your source root must exist a
file called meson.build. To generate the build system run this
command:
meson setup
Depending on how you obtained Meson the command might also be called
instead of plain . In the rest of this document we
are going to use the latter form.
You can omit either of the two directories, and Meson will substitute
the current directory and autodetect what you mean. This allows you to
do things like this:
cd
meson setup builddir
To compile, cd into your build directory and type ninja. To run unit
tests, type ninja test.
More on running Meson build system commands can be found at the
running meson page
or by typing meson --help.
Contributing
We love code contributions. See the contribution
page on the website for
details.
