On 2017-12-22, at 10:14 AM, Benjamin Redelings wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to macports. I'm the author or the bali-phy software, and I'm > working on updating the ancient Portfile for it. The software has changed a > lot since someone wrote the original Portfile years ago, and I was completely > unfamiliar with the Portfile format yesterday, so I have a bit of learning to > do. > > One issue I'm running into is that meson isn't finding boost at the > configure stage. It might be because its not looking for libraries with the > -mt suffix. However, while I'm continuing to look into this, I thought I'd > ask what the general state of using meson with macports is. Is there a place > I can go to see discussion of this? > > I'm pretty happy with meson in general - I'm finally willing to switch > away from autotools. I've been able to generate cross-builds from linux to > mingw-w64 and darwin, and I've done native builds on linux and osx. But > integration with packaging tools seems to be another layer... > > Thanks for any help! > > -BenRI >
Meson support is pretty much brand new in MacPorts -- see <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/1015> There are some issues with meson not properly setting the dylib's install_name correctly, as described in that group. That seems to be an issue more with meson's state of MacOS support rather than anything to do with MacPorts, though. Best, Ken
