Bug 343935

Summary:	Consider adding support for Meson build system
Product:	[Applications] kdevelop	Reporter:	Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane>
Component:	Build tools: Meson	Assignee:	kdevelop-bugs-null
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	daniel, eugene.shalygin+bugzilla.kde, leonard.r.koenig, luca, m.seifert, mail, olaf.the.lost.viking, rjvbertin, simonandric5, zeekec
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	junior-jobs
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
Latest Commit:	https://commits.kde.org/kdevelop/b53ea9aa452ef57595ab488405f21e8bdd989f8f	Version Fixed In:	5.4.0

Description Jussi Pakkanen 2015-02-08 12:19:40 UTC

Meson is a build system designed to be both very powerful and easy to use. It has native support for things such as Qt, unit tests, precompiled headers etc. It is also designed to be as easy to embed in IDEs as possible. As an example it provides full introspection to all things an IDE might be interested in in simple JSON files.

The project home page is here: https://github.com/jpakkane/meson

A video presentation from LCA2015 can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPi0AuVpxLI

There has been some talk in adding Meson support to Gnome Builder here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743280

Thanks,


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 RJVB 2017-08-04 17:27:32 UTC

I second this.

Use case of potential interest: libinput now uses meson.

Comment 2 Luca Weiss 2017-10-07 13:18:35 UTC

I would also be interested in meson intergration.

Comment 3 Kevin Funk 2017-11-04 17:21:03 UTC

Note: There's ongoing work in the kdevelop.git meson branch.

Please see this discussion:
  https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdevelop-devel/2017-October/059372.html

Happy to receive further contributions!

Comment 4 Francis Herne 2019-01-11 16:58:12 UTC

The Meson plugin has now been greatly improved thanks to Daniel Mensinger, and merged into KDevelop master:

https://commits.kde.org/kdevelop/b53ea9aa452ef57595ab488405f21e8bdd989f8f

===
This patch implements the basic functionality of the meson plugin.
Introspection (targets, include dirs, etc.) is not implemented yet.

The current features are:
  - (re)configuring a meson project
  - building with ninja
  - GUI for configuring a build directory (currently only install prefix and build type)
  - managing multiple build directories
  - GUI for adding a new build directory
===

Obviously there's still room for improvement. Please file any specific wishlist items or bugs under the new "Build tools: Meson" component.

Comment 5 Luca Weiss 2019-01-11 17:05:45 UTC

That's great to hear, thanks Daniel!

Comment 6 Daniel Mensinger 2019-01-11 18:06:12 UTC

No Problem. Also, the plugin is not finished yet and I am actively working on it. I am currently implementing the meson build options integration.