To build from source, you will need:

• A relatively modern C compiler (GCC, Clang, and MSVC are known to work).

• Meson, which depends on Python.

This is a brief overview of building this project with meson. See the meson documentation for more detailed information.

The build is configured with the setup command, which creates a new build directory with the given name:

meson setup build

Some environment variables are read during setup and stored with the configuration:

• CC: Path to C compiler.
• CFLAGS: C compiler options.
• LDFLAGS: Linker options.

However, it is better to use meson options for configuration. All options can be inspected with the configure command from within the build directory:

cd build
meson configure

Options can be set by passing C-style "define" options to configure:

meson configure -Dc_args="-march=native" -Dprefix="/opt/mypackage/"

Note that some options, such as strict and werror are for developer/maintainer use only. Please don't file issues about anything that happens when they are enabled.

From within a configured build directory, everything can be built with the compile command:

meson compile

Similarly, tests can be run with the test command:

meson test

Meson can also generate a project for several popular IDEs, see the backend option for details.

A compiled project can be installed with the install command:

meson install

You may need to acquire root permissions to install to a system-wide prefix. For packaging, the installation may be staged to a directory using the DESTDIR environment variable or the --destdir option:

DESTDIR=/tmp/mypackage/ meson install

meson install --destdir=/tmp/mypackage/