README: Meson for build
Explain how to use with Meson, as autotools is going away. The instructions have been copied from https://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html . Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>
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Building Weston
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Building Weston
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Weston is built using autotools, with `autogen.sh` and `make`. It often depends
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Weston is built using [Meson](https://mesonbuild.com/). Weston often depends
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on the current release versions of
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on the current release versions of
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[Wayland](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland) and
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[Wayland](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland) and
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[wayland-protocols](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols).
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[wayland-protocols](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols).
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If necessary, the latest Meson can be installed as a user with:
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$ pip3 install --user meson
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Weston's Meson build does not do autodetection and it defaults to all
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features enabled, which means you likely hit missing dependencies on the first
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try. If a dependency is avoidable through a build option, the error message
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should tell you what option can be used to avoid it. You may need to disable
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several features if you want to avoid certain dependencies.
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$ git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston.git
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$ cd weston
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$ meson build/ --prefix=...
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$ ninja -C build/ install
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$ cd ..
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The `meson` command populates the build directory. This step can
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fail due to missing dependencies. Any build options you want can be added on
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that line, e.g. `meson build/ --prefix=... -Dsimple-dmabuf-drm=intel`.
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All the build options can be found in the file
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[meson_options.txt](meson_options.txt).
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Once the build directory has been successfully populated, you can inspect the
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configuration with `meson configure build/`. If you need to change an
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option, you can do e.g.
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`meson configure build/ -Dsimple-dmabuf-drm=intel`.
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Every push to the Weston master repository and its forks is built using GitLab
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Every push to the Weston master repository and its forks is built using GitLab
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CI. [Reading the configuration](.gitlab-ci.yml) may provide a useful example of
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CI. [Reading the configuration](.gitlab-ci.yml) may provide a useful example of
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how to build and install Weston.
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how to build and install Weston.
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