A binary distribution of Meson Build.

If you already know the general facts about the xPack Meson Build, you can directly skip to the desired pages.

User pages:

Developer & maintainer pages:

Overview

The xPack Meson Build is a cross-platform binary distribution of Meson, The Meson Build system, an open source project hosted on GitHub.

The Meson project is written in Python. To simplify dependencies management, the xPack Meson Build embeds a Python3 instance.

Benefits

The main advantages of using the xPack Meson Build are:

  • a convenient, uniform and portable install/uninstall/upgrade procedure, the same procedure is used for all major platforms (Intel Windows 64-bit, Intel GNU/Linux 64-bit, Arm GNU/Linux 64/32-bit, Intel macOS 64-bit, Apple Silicon macOS 64-bit)
  • a better integration with development environments
  • a more convenient integration with CI environment

All binaries are self-contained, they include all required libraries, and can be installed in any location.

Compatibility

The xPack Meson Build is fully compatible with the original Meson distribution.

Install

The details of installing the xPack Meson Build on various platforms are presented in the separate install page.

Documentation

The original Meson documentation is available online:

Support

For the various support options, please read the separate support page.

Change log

The release and change log is available in the repository CHANGELOG.md file.

Build details

For those interested in building the binaries, please read the README-MAINTAINER page. However, the ultimate source for details are the build scripts themselves, all available from the meson-build-xpack.git/scripts folder.

Releases

See the releases pages.