Will cairomm also be getting meson as buildsystem? > On 26 Mar 2020, at 08:42, Kjell Ahlstedt via gtkmm-list > <gtkmm-list@gnome.org> wrote: > > On 2020-03-26 09:06, Murray Cumming wrote: >> On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 18:49 +0100, Kjell Ahlstedt via gtkmm-list wrote: >>> These *mm packages can now be built either with Meson or with >>> Autotools: >>> >>> mm-common >>> libsigc++-2.0, libsigc++-3.0 >>> glibmm-2.4, glibmm-2.66 >>> pangomm-1.4, pangomm-2.44 >>> (gtkmm-documentation-3,) gtkmm-documentation-4 >>> I've put gtkmm-documentation-3 in parentheses because there is no >>> released tarball with Meson support, it's only in the git repo. >>> >>> Some underlying C packages, such as glib and gtk4, have dropped >>> Autotools support. Shall we do the same, where possible? >>> >>> I think at least one released tarball must contain both Meson support >>> and Autotools support before Autotools support can be dropped, or >>> else https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/ >>> <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/> will have >>> problems. Correct me, if I'm wrong here. >>> >>> At the moment all of the listed packages use Meson when they are >>> built with jhbuild, but only mm-common does so when it's built with >>> gnome-build-meta. >>> >>> Regards >>> Kjell >> I don't have enough experience with Meson to give a real opinion. So do >> please do what you think makes things easier for people working on the >> code. Thanks for pursuing this. >> >> Where would I go to find basic instructions for using Meson with gtkmm >> and co. For instance, how would I build with or without our strict >> warnings as errors? >> >> > Complete documentation of Meson is at https://mesonbuild.com/ > <https://mesonbuild.com/>. > > The README files of libsigc++, glibmm and pangomm contain very short > descriptions of how to build with Meson and with Autotools. Available options > are in the meson_options.txt file. Or, in the build directory, run "meson > configure". warnings=fatal is the default. I have tried to make the > "warnings" option equal to the Autotools equivalent, except that "fatal" is > the default. If you want to see exactly which warnings are enabled, look at > the meson.build file in the package's top directory. > > Gtkmm itself can't be built with Meson yet. That's several months ahead, I > think. > > _______________________________________________ > gtkmm-list mailing list > gtkmm-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
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