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.

This Meson build system is provided with no guarantee.

How to build

cd to this meson directory (contrib/meson)

meson setup --buildtype=release -Ddefault_library=shared -Dbin_programs=true builddir
cd builddir
ninja             # to build
ninja install     # to install

You might want to install it in staging directory:

DESTDIR=./staging ninja install

To configure build options, use:

meson configure

See man meson(1).