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Author SHA1 Message Date
Nirbheek Chauhan
cbd02b9584 meson: Always use a dependency object for dependencies
Fixes a configure error with gst-build:

subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build:235:2: ERROR:  Fetched variable 'gst_check_dep' in the subproject 'gstreamer' is not a dependency object.
2018-09-05 16:33:43 +05:30
Tim-Philipp Müller
6d34f57cb6 meson: add option to disable build of GStreamer unit test library 2018-08-10 01:23:35 +01:00
Håvard Graff
fbbe6c646e meson: make check and tests build on Windows with msvc 2018-01-11 09:50:24 +00:00
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