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Meson

Open source build system featuring multiplatform support, extremely fast full and incremental builds, cross-compilation for operating systems and bare metal, readable build files using a non-Turing complete DSL, and built-in dependency management.

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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Features

  1.  C support
  2.  C++
  3.  Rust

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  • Autark icon
    antosha_one added Meson as alternative to Autark
  • Rsbuild icon
    POX added Meson as alternative to Rsbuild
  • Fla updated Meson

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  •  6,632 Stars
  •  1,940 Forks
  •  2260 Open Issues
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What is Meson?

The main design point of Meson is that every moment a developer spends writing or debugging build definitions is a second wasted. So is every second spent waiting for the build system to actually start compiling code.

Features

  • multiplatform support for Linux, OSX, Windows, Gcc, Clang, Visual Studio and others
  • supported languages include C, C++, Fortran, Java, Rust
  • build definitions in a very readable and user friendly non-turing complete DSL
  • cross compilation for many operating systems as well as bare metal
  • optimized for extremely fast full and incremental builds without sacrificing correctness
  • built-in multiplatform dependency provider that works together with distro packages
  • fun!