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NAME

       meson - a high productivity build system

DESCRIPTION

       Meson  is  a  build  system designed to optimize programmer productivity. It aims to do this by providing
       simple, out-of-the-box support for modern software development tools and practices, such as  unit  tests,
       coverage reports, Valgrind, CCache and the like.

       Using Meson is simple and follows the common two-phase process of most build systems. First you run Meson
       to configure your build:

       meson [ options ] [ source directory ] [ build directory ]

       Note that the build directory must be different  from  the  source  directory.  Meson  does  not  support
       building inside the source directory and attempting to do that leads to an error.

       After a successful configuration step you can build the source by running the actual build command in the
       build directory. The default backend of Meson is Ninja, which can be invoked like this.

       ninja [ target ]

       You only need to run the Meson command once: when you first configure your build dir. After that you just
       run the build command. Meson will autodetect changes in your source tree and regenerates all files needed
       to build the project.

   options:
       --version
              print version number

       --help print command line help

SEE ALSO

       http://mesonbuild.com/