On 30 December 2017 at 09:52, Colomban Wendling lists.ban@herbesfolles.org wrote:
Le 29/12/2017 à 15:46, Lex Trotman a écrit :
Any help out of this dungeon?
Hope this will give you a few doors down, and a chance to take on the final boss :)
One day we really should slay the autotools dragon using the meson gun ;-D
Is meson good, unlike the gazillion other Autotools alternatives that are worse than the original (nobody said scons) or not as good or at least lacking features we currently use (basically well, everything else I tried or heard of)?
Well, as parts of GTK and Gnome are moving to it, that means it performs the tasks they need, (https://github.com/GNOME/gtk/blob/master/gtk/meson.build) and that should cover our requirements I would have thought, but I havn't checked.
But I am only using it for relatively simple things where it "just works" :)
Anyway, it's not a very serious question, as I could just check, and possibly try and see to answer, but it's fair :)
Yeah, and like most rapidly growing projects that are not commercially supported, the docs lag (though at least its no longer a wiki).
BTW, I doubt meson is magic enough to install istelf if you didn't when you tried to run it… and if it is I won't like it :]
That would be a distro function would it not?
And you need a supported builder, not make. :)
From --help on the version I have "--backend
{ninja,vs,vs2010,vs2015,vs2017,xcode}"
Cheers Lex
PS Sorry to the OP for hijacking your thread
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