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• NH:STA S01E04 systemd

  Just like most open source projects, systemd is never “finished” and there is always more that can be done to improve things. Though the project already maintains a high quality bar and is very robust, the maintainers wanted some help adding extra test coverage and finding edge cases, particularly in the resolved component. The project uses the Meson build system, which can be configured to output code coverage... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++

  Actually looks very similar to Meson [https://mesonbuild.com/], which is getting a lot of traction in FOSS [https://mesonbuild.com/Users.html]. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report

  I’m still surprised how people ignore Meson: https://mesonbuild.com/ And Mesons awesome dependency handling: https://mesonbuild.com/Dependencies.html https://mesonbuild.com/Using-the-WrapDB.html#using-the-wrapdb After reading about GNU Autotools (help!) and suffering ever awful thing Java created I wondered if C/C++ could do better. They do. For years :). - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Learn Makefiles

  Than checked Autotools and shared the head. At the very same time Meson[1] appeared and the thing with Builds is solved :) [1] https://mesonbuild.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• cargo-c common questions

  With cargo-c I try to use the best practices to support as many platform as possible, trying to stay in sync with what meson does. Sadly what is conceptually trivial, installing a package, has lots of details that are platform-specific. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Rust Without Crates.io

  I went to mesonbuild.org and it doesn't match the description (some sort of betting site? I didn't stick around ...), and a search turned up: https://mesonbuild.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Makefile Tutorial

  Came here to post the same. The answer for How to build software? is Meson[1] for C and C++ and also other languages. Works well on Windows and Mac, too. I’ve written a small Makefile to learn the basic and backgrounds. Make is fine. But the next high-level would have been Autotools, which is an intimidating and weird set of tools. Most new stuff written in C/C++ use now Meson and it feels sane. [1]... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• CMake x make?

  If you are very fortunate, you'll be able to choose something else. I like meson myself: it looks a bit like python, it's popular, small, simple, well-documented, easy to install and update, and it works well everywhere. Source: almost 3 years ago

• C++ Papercuts

  I suggest changing the build tool. Meson improved C and C++ a lot: https://mesonbuild.com/ The dependency declaration and auto-detection is nice. But the hidden extra is WrapDB, built-in package management (if wanted):

      https://mesonbuild.com/Wrap-dependency-system-manual.html.

  - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• A Modern C Development Environment

  > C's only REAL problem (in my opinion) which is the lack of dependency management. Most everything else can be done with a makefile and a half decent editor. Care to hear about our lord and saviour Meson? Both of your quoted problems are mutually incompatible: dependency management isn't the job of the compiler, it's a job for the build or host system. If you want to keep writing makefiles, be prepared to write... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• cgen: another declarative CMake configuration generator

  Other people going down this route seem to end up writing cmake replacements instead. I'm thinking of something like meson here except that meson never intended to transpile to cmake. Source: about 3 years ago

• I was wrong about rust

  Meson is probably the closest we'll ever get to such a thing, it's kinda declarative and has WrapDB as a dependency repository. Source: about 3 years ago

• Building and Running Pidgin and Finch 3

  Historically when you're building software you need to install it before you can run it. A while back Meson added support for development environments (aka devenv's). These allow us to run pidgin3 and finch3 from the build directory without installing, which saves a TON of development time! - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

• Supporting the Use of Rust in the Chromium Project

  That's basically just Meson; it even has support for pulling in cmake projects. Source: over 3 years ago

• Modern Software Development Tools and oneAPI Part 2

  This post will focus on building this same code using Meson. Meson focuses on simplicity, is a build system generator, but has a concept of back-ends where it can generate whatever the back-end defines. Together with the backend creates a featureful build system. Currently, the default back-end is the fabulous ninja on the Linux platform. Ninja is a command runner that is extremely fast compared to something like... - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago

• Building tools for personal projects?

  CMake is unfortunately the current de-facto standard so knowing at least the basics will be necessary at some point. However especially for your personal projects you can also just use one of the more modern and sane alternatives, for example Meson. Source: over 3 years ago

• I've Been Laid Off. What Now?

  Zig's potential is that it is pretty easy to write cross-platform code with it. Normally writing cross-platform code involves using a cross-compiler setup where you write code that targets another platform that's different than your host system. It requires using compilers that have ABIs of the target system, which is not something many have readily available. Sometimes you're often left having to do this yourself... - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago

• Modern CMake Packaging: A Guide

  As a comparative example, https://mesonbuild.com includes builtin functionality to generate a pkg-config file, with a global setting to select whether to use relocatable paths (necessary because on Linux when installed in /usr it is bad to use ${pcfiledir}/../../). Source: over 3 years ago

• Clang is better than GCC

  To build any and all of these without affecting your source directory. I usually wrap all the useful configurations in a Makefile-like shell script. [1]: https://mesonbuild.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• include errors for glfw and glad

  Well first, you probably want some sort of build system. It looks like you're on linux - I recommend Meson build (https://mesonbuild.com/) - it plays really well with small projects like this. But more importantly, it will create compile_commands.json which VSCode can use for autocomplete. Source: over 3 years ago

• New to Programming and Would Like a Code Review or Tips on Readability

  The current de-facto standard build system for C++ is CMake so in theory if you were to write a library then most people would be able to consume it if you use that and at some point you will encounter it so knowing a bit about it is useful. However CMake also has several downsides, the major one being the terrible, ugly, and clunky shit syntax. The tutorials/documentation situation is also not really good,... Source: almost 4 years ago