xPack Meson Build v0.61.5-1 released
The xPack Meson Build is a standalone cross-platform binary distribution of Meson Build.
There are separate binaries for Windows (Intel 64-bit), macOS (Intel 64-bit, Apple Silicon 64-bit) and GNU/Linux (Intel 64-bit, Arm 32/64-bit).
Download
The binary files are available from GitHub Releases.
Prerequisites
- GNU/Linux Intel 64-bit: any system with GLIBC 2.27 or higher (like Ubuntu 18 or later, Debian 10 or later, RedHat 8 or later, Fedora 29 or later, etc)
- GNU/Linux Arm 32/64-bit: any system with GLIBC 2.27 or higher (like Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu 18 or later, Debian 10 or later, RedHat 8 or later, Fedora 29 or later, etc)
- Intel Windows 64-bit: Windows 7 with the Universal C Runtime (UCRT), Windows 8, Windows 10
- Intel macOS 64-bit: 10.13 or later
- Apple Silicon macOS 64-bit: 11.6 or later
Install
The full details of installing the xPack Meson Build on various platforms are presented in the separate Install page.
Easy install
The easiest way to install Meson Build is with
xpm
by using the binary xPack, available as
@xpack-dev-tools/meson-build
from the npmjs.com
registry.
With the xpm
tool available, installing
the latest version of the package and adding it as
a dependency for a project is quite easy:
cd my-project
xpm init # Only at first use.
xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/meson-build@latest
ls -l xpacks/.bin
To install this specific version, use:
xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/meson-build@0.61.5-1.1
It is also possible to install Meson Build globally, in the user home folder, but this requires xPack aware tools to automatically identify them and manage paths.
xpm install --global @xpack-dev-tools/meson-build@latest --verbose
Uninstall
To remove the links from the current project:
cd my-project
xpm uninstall @xpack-dev-tools/meson-build
To completely remove the package from the central xPacks store:
xpm uninstall --global @xpack-dev-tools/meson-build
Compliance
The xPack Meson Build generally follows the official Meson Build releases.
The current version is based on:
- Meson Build release 0.61.5 from 13 Aug 2022.
Changes
Compared to the upstream version, there are no functional changes.
Bug fixes
- none
Enhancements
- none
Known problems
- none
Embedded Python
To simplify dependency management, this release embeds a Python 3.10.6 instance.
The meson
executable is a standard ELF/EXE which includes the Python
run-time; the main()
function prepares the Python environment and then
invokes the Meson main:
PyRun_SimpleString("from mesonbuild import mesonmain\n");
PyRun_SimpleString("sys.exit(mesonmain.main())\n");
The Python library is located in the standard location:
lib/python3.10
lib/python3.10/lib-dynload
(the platform dependent files)
The Meson files are located in:
lib/python3.10/mesonbuild
To speed up execution, all Python files are compiled and are
available only as .pyc
.
Shared libraries
On all platforms the packages are standalone, and expect only the standard runtime to be present on the host.
All dependencies that are build as shared libraries are copied locally
in the libexec
folder (or in the same folder as the executable for Windows).
DT_RPATH
and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
On GNU/Linux the binaries are adjusted to use a relative path:
$ readelf -d library.so | grep runpath
0x000000000000001d (RPATH) Library rpath: [$ORIGIN]
In the GNU ld.so search strategy, the DT_RPATH
has
the highest priority, higher than LD_LIBRARY_PATH
, so if this later one
is set in the environment, it should not interfere with the xPack binaries.
Please note that previous versions, up to mid-2020, used DT_RUNPATH
, which
has a priority lower than LD_LIBRARY_PATH
, and does not tolerate setting
it in the environment.
@rpath
and @loader_path
Similarly, on macOS, the binaries are adjusted with install_name_tool
to use a
relative path.
Documentation
The original documentation is available from:
Build
The binaries for all supported platforms (Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux) were built using the xPack Build Box (XBB), a set of build environments based on slightly older distributions, that should be compatible with most recent systems.
The scripts used to build this distribution are in:
distro-info/scripts
For the prerequisites and more details on the build procedure, please see the README-MAINTAINER page.
CI tests
Before publishing, a set of simple tests were performed on an exhaustive set of platforms. The results are available from:
Checksums
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Deprecation notices
32-bit support
Support for 32-bit Intel Linux and Intel Windows was dropped in 2022. Support for 32-bit Arm Linux (armv7l) will be preserved for a while, due to the large user base of 32-bit Raspberry Pi systems.
Linux minimum requirements
Support for RedHat 7 was dropped in 2022 and the minimum requirement was raised to GLIBC 2.27, available starting with Ubuntu 18, Debian 10 and RedHat 8.
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