[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Autotools: Really slow on Windows (#2305)

[Colomban Wendling]

I can't really believe I could be suggesting something like this, but anyone tried [meson](https://mesonbuild.com/) or such?  I'm not totally opposed against moving away from Autotools in the unlikely event there's a decent alternative (e.g. that does everything we need from AT [1], and has actual advantages), although every time I saw a new build system claiming this it fell short in one way or the other.
Just an idea, because I unfortunately doubt we can make libtool fast on Windows, and we need at least libgeany being a shared library for plugins.  Or maybe things like ninja would help a little? (I doubt it, as it should still run the same commands)

[1] maybe the most common shortcomings are distribution tarballs and painless portability to exotic Unices.

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