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NAME

6       meson - a high productivity build system
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DESCRIPTION

9       Meson  is  a build system designed to optimize programmer productivity.
10       It aims to do this by providing simple, out-of-the-box support for mod‐
11       ern  software development tools and practices, such as unit tests, cov‐
12       erage reports, Valgrind, CCache and the like.
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14       The main Meson executable provides many subcommands to access  all  the
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The setup command

19       Using  Meson is simple and follows the common two-phase process of most
20       build systems. First you run Meson to configure your build:
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22       meson setup [ options ] [ source directory ] [ build directory ]
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24       Note that the build directory must be different from the source  direc‐
25       tory.  Meson  does not support building inside the source directory and
26       attempting to do that leads to an error.
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28       After a successful configuration step you can build the source by  run‐
29       ning the actual build command in the build directory. The default back‐
30       end of Meson is Ninja, which can be invoked like this.
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32       ninja [ target ]
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34       You only need to run the Meson command once: when you  first  configure
35       your  build  dir. After that you just run the build command. Meson will
36       autodetect changes in your source tree and regenerate all files  needed
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39       The  setup  command  is  the default operation. If no actual command is
40       specified, Meson will assume you meant to do a setup. That  means  that
41       you can set up a build directory without the setup command like this:
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43       meson [ options ] [ source directory ] [ build directory ]
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46   options:
47       --version
48              print version number
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50       --help print command line help
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The configure command

54       meson  configure  provides  a way to configure a Meson project from the
55       command line.  Its usage is simple:
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59       If build directory is omitted, the current directory is used instead.
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61       If no parameters are set, meson configure will print the value  of  all
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64       To set values, use the -D command line argument like this.
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The introspect command

70       Meson  introspect is a command designed to make it simple to  integrate
71       with other tools, such as IDEs. The output of this command is in JSON.
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73       meson introspect [ build directory ] [ option ]
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75       If build directory is omitted, the current directory is used instead.
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78   options:
79       --targets
80              print all top level targets (executables, libraries, etc)
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82       --target-files
83              print the source files of the given target
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85       --buildsystem-files
86              print all files that make  up  the  build  system  (meson.build,
87              meson_options.txt etc)
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92       --help print command line help
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The test command

96       meson  test  is a helper tool for running test suites of projects using
97       Meson.  The default way of running tests is to invoke the default build
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102       meson test provides a richer set of tools for invoking tests.
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105   options:
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109       --gdb  run tests under gdb
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111       --list list all available tests
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113       --wrapper
114              invoke all tests via the given wrapper (e.g. valgrind)
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116       -C     Change  into  the  given directory before running tests (must be
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119       --suite
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122       --no-suite
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125       --no-stdsplit
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128       --benchmark
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131       --logbase
132              base of file name to use for writing test logs
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134       --num-processes
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137       --verbose
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140       -t     a multiplier to use for test timeout values  (usually  something
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143       --setup
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The wrap command

148       Wraptool  is  a  helper utility to manage source dependencies using the
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151       meson wrap < command > [ options ]
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153       You should run this command in the top level source directory  of  your
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157   Commands:
158       list   list all available projects
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160       search search projects by name
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162       install
163              install a project with the given name
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165       update update the specified project to latest available version
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167       info   show available versions of the specified project
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169       status show  installed and available versions of currently used subpro‐
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EXIT STATUS

174       0      Successful.
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176       1      Usage error, or an error parsing or executing meson.build.
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182       SEE ALSO
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184              http://mesonbuild.com/
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190meson 0.50.1                      April 2019                          MESON(1)