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Thibault Saunier 57fd614e02 meson: Check bison and flex are recent enough
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781155
2017-04-11 10:59:34 -03:00
Nirbheek Chauhan 4d179024f0 meson: Don't search for python3 twice 2016-12-17 00:00:11 +05:30
Nirbheek Chauhan b2f9808722 Add support for Meson as alternative/parallel build system
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson

With contributions from:

Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com>
Mathieu Duponchelle <mathieu.duponchelle@opencreed.com>
Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> (original port)

Highlights of the features provided are:
* Faster builds on Linux (~40-50% faster)
* The ability to build with MSVC on Windows
* Generate Visual Studio project files
* Generate XCode project files
* Much faster builds on Windows (on-par with Linux)
* Seriously fast configure and building on embedded

... and many more. For more details see:

http://blog.nirbheek.in/2016/05/gstreamer-and-meson-new-hope.html
http://blog.nirbheek.in/2016/07/building-and-developing-gstreamer-using.html

Building with Meson should work on both Linux and Windows, but may
need a few more tweaks on other operating systems.
2016-08-19 21:26:14 +01:00