Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible. The main design point of Meson is that every moment …

This page is meant for people who are new to using Meson and possibly even to compiling C and/or C++ code in general. It is meant to contain one simple way of getting your build …

To compile any given configuration, just go into the corresponding build directory and run meson compile. Meson will automatically add compiler flags to enable debug information and compiler …

This page shows from the ground up how to create a Meson build definition for a simple project. Then we expand it to use external dependencies to show how easily they can be integrated …

We provide an MSI installer on the GitHub release page that can be used to install both Meson and Ninja at once for Windows. It also contains an embedded copy of Python, so scripts that …

This is the root page of the online Meson reference manual. This manual is also available in a more machine readable format as a JSON documented attached to every release since 0.60.0.

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

An in-depth tutorial In this tutorial we set up a project with multiple targets, unit tests and dependencies between targets. Our main product is a shared library called foo that is written in …

By default, Meson will use the Ninja backend to build your project. If you wish to use any of the other backends, you need to pass the corresponding argument during configuration time.

Syntax The syntax of Meson's specification language has been kept as simple as possible. It is strongly typed so no object is ever converted to another under the covers. Variables have no …