a new shiny buildtool that currently completes in the total of ~ 4 min..
1 min. conf time
2:30 min. build time
Where autotools takes:
1:50 min. conf time
3:40 min. build time.
meson was taken because it went quite good for enlightenment, and is a traction gaining system that is also used by other mayor projects. Additionally, the DSL that is defined my meson makes the configuration of the builds a lot easier to read.
Further informations can be gathered from the README.meson
Right now, bindings & windows support are missing.
It is highly recommented to use meson 0.48 due to optimizations in meson
that reduced the time the meson call would need.
Co-authored-by: Mike Blumenkrantz <zmike@samsung.com>
Differential Revision: https://phab.enlightenment.org/D7012
Depends on D7011
For one-source directories, be smart and just define SOURCES to that,
will reduce the number of too-simplistic CMakeLists.txt in our tree.
This also fixes problems with libraries, they should be private, not
public. So specify both kinds as different variables.
Vincent Torri
Carsten Haitzler
Marcel Hollerbach
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri