diff --git a/include/libweston/meson.build b/include/libweston/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5cc7bc5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/libweston/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+install_headers(
+	'timeline-object.h',
+	subdir: dir_include_libweston_install
+)
diff --git a/libweston/timeline-object.h b/include/libweston/timeline-object.h
similarity index 100%
rename from libweston/timeline-object.h
rename to include/libweston/timeline-object.h
diff --git a/include/meson.build b/include/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ef8298fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+subdir('libweston')
diff --git a/libweston/compositor.h b/libweston/compositor.h
index a5223c28..16ad495b 100644
--- a/libweston/compositor.h
+++ b/libweston/compositor.h
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #include "matrix.h"
 #include "config-parser.h"
 #include "zalloc.h"
-#include "timeline-object.h"
+#include <libweston/timeline-object.h>
 
 struct weston_geometry {
 	int32_t x, y;
diff --git a/libweston/meson.build b/libweston/meson.build
index 4a9a7c04..de4c6ffe 100644
--- a/libweston/meson.build
+++ b/libweston/meson.build
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ srcs_libweston = [
 install_headers(
 	'compositor.h',
 	'plugin-registry.h',
-	'timeline-object.h',
 	'windowed-output-api.h',
 	'../shared/config-parser.h',
 	'../shared/matrix.h',
@@ -78,7 +77,7 @@ endif
 lib_weston = shared_library(
 	'weston-@0@'.format(libweston_major),
 	srcs_libweston,
-	include_directories: include_directories('..', '../shared'),
+	include_directories: [ include_directories('..', '../shared'), public_inc ],
 	link_args: [ '-Wl,-export-dynamic' ],
 	install: true,
 	version: '0.0.@0@'.format(libweston_revision),
@@ -88,7 +87,7 @@ lib_weston = shared_library(
 
 dep_libweston = declare_dependency(
 	link_with: lib_weston,
-	include_directories: include_directories('.'),
+	include_directories: [ include_directories('.'), public_inc ],
 	dependencies: deps_libweston
 )
 
@@ -97,7 +96,7 @@ dep_libweston = declare_dependency(
 # https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/5167
 # in hopefully Meson 0.51.
 dep_libweston_h = declare_dependency(
-	include_directories: include_directories('.'),
+	include_directories: [ include_directories('.'), public_inc ],
 	dependencies: [
 		dep_pixman.partial_dependency(compile_args: true),
 		dep_xkbcommon.partial_dependency(compile_args: true),
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 8962c87e..7e4fc236 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ project('weston',
 	license: 'MIT/Expat',
 )
 
-libweston_major = 6
+libweston_major = 7
 
 # libweston_revision is manufactured to follow the autotools build's
 # library file naming, thanks to libtool
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ dir_prefix = get_option('prefix')
 dir_bin = join_paths(dir_prefix, get_option('bindir'))
 dir_data = join_paths(dir_prefix, get_option('datadir'))
 dir_include_libweston = 'libweston-@0@'.format(libweston_major)
+dir_include_libweston_install = join_paths(dir_include_libweston, 'libweston')
 dir_lib = join_paths(dir_prefix, get_option('libdir'))
 dir_libexec = join_paths(dir_prefix, get_option('libexecdir'))
 dir_module_weston = join_paths(dir_lib, 'weston')
@@ -40,6 +41,8 @@ dir_lib_pc = join_paths(dir_lib, 'pkgconfig')
 dir_man = join_paths(dir_prefix, get_option('mandir'))
 dir_protocol_libweston = 'libweston/protocols'
 
+public_inc = include_directories('include')
+
 pkgconfig = import('pkgconfig')
 
 libweston_version_h = configuration_data()
@@ -149,6 +152,7 @@ dep_libdrm = dependency('libdrm', version: '>= 2.4.68')
 dep_libdrm_headers = dep_libdrm.partial_dependency(compile_args: true)
 dep_threads = dependency('threads')
 
+subdir('include')
 subdir('protocol')
 subdir('shared')
 subdir('libweston')