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# Meson build system
DISCLAIMER: This is a work in progress. The meson build system will be maintained for a brief period alongside autotools.
## Motivation
- We want to build a single, monolithic library libgnunet that is easier to use in, for example, mobile apps.
- Autotools is complex and difficult to use. It also causes stale builds. Meson has a better developer experience.
- Meson supports dynamic pkg-config generation.
- Meson does out-of-tree builds
- Meson makes it (almost) impossible to create dist tarballs that miss files/do not compile.
## Reasons to drop it again
- Meson does not seem to support (automatic) dependency version detection without pkg-config.
## TODOs
- Migrate tests
- Portability defines set implicitly in configure.ac need to be identified and ported to meson.
- Some (experimental) subsystems not yet ported.
- 1:1 match of installed files must be verified.
- Documentation must be updated.
## Use
```
$ meson setup $builddir
$ cd $builddir
$ meson configure -Dprefix=$string -Dexperimental=$bool -Dmonolith=$bool
$ meson compile
$ meson install
$ meson dist
```
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