Recent changes to Installing

Installing modified by Jussi Pakkanen

Jussi Pakkanen — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:57:18 -0000

--- v4
+++ v5
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+The Meson build system has moved
+==
+
+The new home of Meson's documentation is [here](https://github.com/jpakkane/meson/wiki). The information below is preserved only for posterity. It should be considered out of date.
+
+-------
+
 Installing files
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Installing modified by Jussi Pakkanen

Jussi Pakkanen — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:50:11 -0000

--- v3
+++ v4
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 Other install commands are the following.

     headers('header.h', subdir : 'projname') # -> include/projname/header.h
-    man('foo.1') # -> share/man/man1/foo1.gz
+    man('foo.1') # -> share/man/man1/foo.1.gz
     data('progname', sources : 'datafile.cat') # -> share/progname/datafile.dat

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Installing modified by Jussi Pakkanen

Jussi Pakkanen — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:38:03 -0000

--- v2
+++ v3
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
     project('install', 'c')
     shared_library('mylib', 'libfile.c', install : true)

-There is no need to specify install paths or the like. Meson will automatically install it to the standards-conforming location. In this particular case the executable is installed to the bin subdirectory of the install prefix.
+There is usually no need to specify install paths or the like. Meson will automatically install it to the standards-conforming location. In this particular case the executable is installed to the bin subdirectory of the install prefix. However if you wish to override the install dir, you can do that with the install_dir argument.
+
+    executable('prog', 'prog.c', install : true, install_dir : 'my/special/dir')

 Other install commands are the following.

Installing modified by Jussi Pakkanen

Jussi Pakkanen — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:24:29 -0000

--- v1
+++ v2
@@ -3,16 +3,16 @@

 By default Meson will not install anything. Build targets can be installed by tagging them as installable in the definition.

-project('install', 'c')
-shared_library('mylib', 'libfile.c', install : true)
+    project('install', 'c')
+    shared_library('mylib', 'libfile.c', install : true)

 There is no need to specify install paths or the like. Meson will automatically install it to the standards-conforming location. In this particular case the executable is installed to the bin subdirectory of the install prefix.

 Other install commands are the following.

-headers('header.h', subdir : 'projname') # -> include/projname/header.h
-man('foo.1') # -> share/man/man1/foo1.gz
-data('progname', sources : 'datafile.cat') # -> share/progname/datafile.dat
+    headers('header.h', subdir : 'projname') # -> include/projname/header.h
+    man('foo.1') # -> share/man/man1/foo1.gz
+    data('progname', sources : 'datafile.cat') # -> share/progname/datafile.dat

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WikiPage Installing modified by Jussi Pakkanen

Jussi Pakkanen — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:12:52 -0000

Installing files

By default Meson will not install anything. Build targets can be installed by tagging them as installable in the definition.

project('install', 'c') shared_library('mylib', 'libfile.c', install : true)

There is no need to specify install paths or the like. Meson will automatically install it to the standards-conforming location. In this particular case the executable is installed to the bin subdirectory of the install prefix.

Other install commands are the following.

headers('header.h', subdir : 'projname') # -> include/projname/header.h man('foo.1') # -> share/man/man1/foo1.gz data('progname', sources : 'datafile.cat') # -> share/progname/datafile.dat

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