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apx worked for me too. Before I could install it I had to update npm to the latest version

Yes, I saw those. I think meson needs two positional arguments, one for the location of the code, and one for the target folder. Then you have to `cd` to...

Aha, well that might explain why my ORC PR was faltering. All of the examples do something like this: ``` mkdir build && cd build meson .. --cross-file=${MESON_TARGET_TOOLCHAIN} ``` Maybe...

A broader way to think about this is that the hints scripts should be as complete as possible. For example, none of them include a line for cd'ing into the...

> with CMake there is no way to clean up what you've built so far, so what people do is to do the build in a subdirectory and if necessary...

It seems to me that for the hint script, the first priority would be getting something that could potentially work just from copying and pasting.

Oh I see. Jack2 is failing to build for me too; it doesn't seem like PRIu64 is working, which was added in C99. Could it be for similar reasons?

In any case, I think it would be nice if this were documented.

Oh I hadn't seen those. But unless I'm missing something I don't see anything about how to replace with the linux headers?

Ok, will do. Sidenote I tried doing it in my example (util-linux) and C threw a bunch of errors about structs being defined more than once. I think I'll have...