Add meson build system

Open elmarco opened this issue 4 months ago • 2 comments

meson is much more friendly and modern than autotools.

I wanted to see how gemini could help with this. It did fairly well, except with the tests and various minor cleanups.

I didn't delete autotools, but I think we should consider its deprecation after this is accepted to avoid the duplication of effort.

Aug 04 '25 18:08 elmarco

FYI: I intend to take this but need to defer it until after rev155 has been merged. There are major changes coming with following upstream to rev155 and I prefer not doubling the effort in every step with automake and meson build.

Aug 10 '25 14:08 stefanberger

no problem, there is no rush, I did this mostly on my spare time for fun :)

Aug 10 '25 18:08 elmarco