Hi, >> By a quick look on the buildfarm we seem to use Ninja >= 1.11.1. >> However since Meson can use both Ninja and VS as a backend I'm not >> certain which section would be most appropriate for naming the minimal >> required version of Ninja. > > When I tried building with the VS backend it blew up, I don't recall the > details. I think we should just use ninja everywhere. That keeps things > simple. On Windows I just install python and then do "pip install meson ninja"
If we know that it doesn't work I suggest removing mention of --backend option from [1] until it will, in order to avoid any confusion. [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/install-meson.html -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev