NAME¶
meson - a high productivity build system
DESCRIPTION¶
Meson is a build system designed to optimize programmer productivity. It aims to
do this by providing simple, out-of-the-box support for modern software
development tools and practices, such as unit tests, coverage reports,
Valgrind, CCache and the like.
Using Meson is simple and follows the common two-phase process of most build
systems. First you run Meson to configure your build:
meson [ options ] [ source directory ] [
build directory ]
Note that the build directory must be different from the source directory. Meson
does not support building inside the source directory and attempting to do
that leads to an error.
After a successful configuration step you can build the source by running the
actual build command in the build directory. The default backend of Meson is
Ninja, which can be invoked like this.
ninja [ target ]
You only need to run the Meson command once: when you first configure your build
dir. After that you just run the build command. Meson will autodetect changes
in your source tree and regenerates all files needed to build the project.
options:¶
- --version
- print version number
- --help
- print command line help
SEE ALSO¶
https://jpakkane.github.io/meson/