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The Meson Build System

18 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 4 stories, 14 comments · first 2015-09-01 · latest 2025-09-11

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  1. …-std=c++20 probably isn't necessary in future. I recommend skimming over this issue from Meson: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/5024 Reading the last few blog posts from a developer of Meson, providing some insights why Meson…
    comment by ho_schi · 2025-09-11 · in C++20 Modules: Practical Insights, Status and TODOs
  2. …code if there really was an issue. [0]: https://blog.dave.tf/post/finding-bottom-turtle/ [1]: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8153 [2]: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/blob/f8ba5b12ca842c...
    comment by helloiamsomeone · 2024-04-02 · in Which Build Tool for a Bootstrappable Project?
  3. It even has a debugger and an auto formatter. Meson is getting an auto formatter in https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/10971 .
    comment by tristan957 · 2022-12-23 · in Meson Build System 1.0
  4. For the second, https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/6662#issuecomment... is the right solution and I will try to have it documented. Unfortunately, clang disagrees that it's the right solution and meson might have to hack something…
    comment by bonzini · 2022-05-02 · in Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools
  5. …versions of Ubuntu; and the other just languishing, as I guess "working" is asking for too much). https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/6057 https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/6662
    comment by saurik · 2022-05-02 · in Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools
  6. …projects. How do people handle repetitive patterns in practice? By extending Meson itself? [0]: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/3234 [1]: https://mesonbuild.com/FAQ.html#why-doesnt-meson-have-user-d...
    comment by chombier · 2021-09-01 · in The Rise of Meson
  7. …cproc actually filed an issue report in 2019 pointing out this very fallacy, which is still open: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/5406
    comment by potus_kushner · 2021-08-21 · in Cproc C Compiler
  8. …the work is hindered by the lack of recent TCC releases - 0.9.27 is too old to be supported. [1] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/8248
    comment by xvilka · 2021-08-20 · in Cproc C Compiler
  9. …packages. However, I don't have the patience for Gentoo to compile the bulk of my system. [0] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2761 > I genuinely am curious and considering trying Bedrock out. I just can't see what workloads I…
    comment by ParadigmComplex · 2021-02-01 · in Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
  10. This was the extent of the changes necessary to get Meson working on the system-provided Python: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/commit/85686e21d78a587de... . Surely that is not a "Stone Age tool"? The people doing the work right now…
    comment by saagarjha · 2020-07-16 · in Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle
  11. I mainly work in languages with good type systems. But I've also contributed a bunch https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3... I can assure you despite all the unit tests refactoring just takes way, way, longer.
    comment by Ericson2314 · 2020-06-03 · in Refactor vs. Rewrite
  12. …track. I did a little work on it a couple of years back but regrettably never followed up [1]. [0] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/27c01dff01832fa9d0c... [1] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/97#issuecomment-3...
    comment by berti · 2019-10-11 · in Bazel Release 1.0
  13. Thanks for sharing your perspective. My comment was largely based on this discussion: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2173 If you'd like to share a short summary of your thoughts, I'll update the article with your commentary.
    comment by ddevault · 2019-03-25 · in Rust is not a good C replacement
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    The Meson Build System
    story by starbugs · 2018-10-29 · 0 comments
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    Update FAQ in meson build tool: meson is not elementary particle
    story by brianon99 · 2017-05-05 · 0 comments
  16. …But at least, one could get rid of the mess that is pretty much every CMake build there is. [1]: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson
    comment by btschaegg · 2017-01-25 · in Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality
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    I'm a big fan of this build system: Meson
    story by felipellrocha · 2016-08-26 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: Meson, a C build system
    story by felipellrocha · 2015-09-01 · 17 comments