Hello, On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Sam Thursfield <sss...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with the sentiments above that Meson isn't quite ready for this > yet. I've tried Meson out for 2 projects (Tracker and Rhythmbox) and in > both cases there have been several patches needed to Meson, some of > which are still unfinished. > > Many people other people seem to be trying out Meson already, which is > good, and suggests we don't need to do anything further right now to > encourage people to try it out. >
Yes, the GNOME module in Meson has had several improvements merged, and more in the pipeline. Thanks for your patches! We've been hard at work to make everything work smoothly for GNOME projects, and have had a lot of interest; particularly from the Vala folks. It's quite encouraging! Our goal is to have GNOME and Vala support working flawlessly out of the box ASAP, and people coming and telling us what they need has been a great help in that regard. If you are thinking about trying Meson out and need help, hop on to #mesonbuild on Freenode and find us. :-) PS: We'd really like some help in making our documentation more newbie friendly too. > There are GStreamer build instructions using Meson at > <https://github.com/centricular/gstreamer/> (and /gst-plugins-*/) which > seem pretty complete and I believe they're already being used to > cross-compile GStreamer to Windows. > Just bunch of small corrections. The GStreamer Meson build files have been merged upstream (alongside Autotools), so it is recommended that you get them from there: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/ + /gst-plugins-{base,good,bad,ugly}, etc. We also have a git repo that uses Meson's subproject feature to build gstreamer + plugins in one tree in one go: https://github.com/thiblahute/gst-all . This is the recommended way of building GStreamer with Meson on Linux using the system-install dependencies. We have our own "jhbuild/continuous-equivalent" called Cerbero that is used for building GStreamer in other configurations. The default build used there is still Autotools. For that, we have a branch (https://github.com/centricular/cerbero) that can build gstreamer + plugins on Linux, on native Windows, and can cross-compile to Windows on Linux. > For GTK+, there are preliminary build instructions for GTK+ at > <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769881>. I guess it would be > a few days work to make these nearly-complete. So I think Meson is close > to being able to pass that test already. > There's also a Glib repository with Meson build files (https://github.com/centricular/glib), but just like the GTK+ build it's not complete yet, and we're working on making it have feature-parity with the Autotools build and the Visual Studio project files shipped with the project. It's just a matter of going over the Autotools build files line by line and checking that everything has been translated over. Cheers, -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
