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Meson

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Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible.

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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Features

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  1.  C support
  2.  C++ support
  3.  C++
  4.  Rust

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  • POX added Meson as alternative to Werk
    3 months ago
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    POX added Meson as alternative to LazFuck
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Meson information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
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  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  5,981 Stars
  •  1,720 Forks
  •  2509 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 24, 2025 
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Meson was added to AlternativeTo by Sonomabob on Apr 26, 2017 and this page was last updated Dec 18, 2020.

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Dec 13, 2020
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Its simple, modern, and powerful.

What is Meson?

The main design point of Meson is that every moment a developer spends writing or debugging build definitions is a second wasted. So is every second spent waiting for the build system to actually start compiling code.

Features

  • multiplatform support for Linux, OSX, Windows, Gcc, Clang, Visual Studio and others
  • supported languages include C, C++, Fortran, Java, Rust
  • build definitions in a very readable and user friendly non-turing complete DSL
  • cross compilation for many operating systems as well as bare metal
  • optimized for extremely fast full and incremental builds without sacrificing correctness
  • built-in multiplatform dependency provider that works together with distro packages
  • fun!

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