Manual

The Meson build system has moved

The new home of Meson's documentation is here. The information below is preserved only for posterity. It should be considered out of date.

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Meson user manual

This is the user manual for Meson. It currently tracks the state of Git head, which will eventually become version 0.18. If you are using an older version, some of the information here might not work for you.

• Overview
• Running Meson
• Sample Meson files
• Syntax
• Build targets
• Include directories
• Installing
• Adding flags
• Configuration
• Detecting compiler and system properties
• Dependencies
• External commands
• Precompiled headers
• Unity builds
• Generating sources
• Feature autodetection
• Unit tests
• Cross compilation
• Localisation
• Build options
• Subprojects
• Pkg-config files
• Java
• Vala
• IDE integration
• Custom build targets
• Build system converters
• Configuring a build directory
• Run targets

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