The Meson Build System

Tutorial

To create a Meson build definition for a simple project.

It assumes that you have GTK development environment installed:

sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev

Hello

1. Prepare the source
Create a file main.c:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  printf("Hello world.\n");
  return 0;
}

2. create a Meson build description
Create a file called meson.build:

project('tutorial', 'c')
executable('demo', 'main.c')  
  	

3. initialize the build
Going into the source directory and issuing the following commands.

$ meson setup builddir   
    

This will create a separate build directory called builddir.
4. to build the code

$ cd builddir
$ ninja  
	

Adding library dependencies