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| author | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2016-02-26 21:59:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2016-02-26 21:59:10 +0200 |
| commit | 06693f8d9e08068e24fd1bd771d68f23e4456b44 (patch) | |
| tree | b399a2b4ce105bbe0c005650d4cc4b37546cd84c | |
| parent | af53c2bc3b13ba8eb7f9e8f5c3990b966c792e5d (diff) | |
| parent | 41dd1e2a24ba60a8413b5cbed423181264e627b7 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #412 from lukeadams/master
Improve readme
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@@ -1,47 +1,47 @@ -MesonĀ® is project to create the best possible next-generation +<p align="center"> +<img src="http://mesonbuild.com/meson_logo.png"> +</p> +MesonĀ® is a project to create the best possible next-generation build system. +####Dependencies -Dependencies + - Python http://python.org (version 3.4 or newer) + - Ninja http://martine.github.com/ninja/ -Python http://python.org (version 3.4 or newer) -Ninja http://martine.github.com/ninja/ - - -Installing from source +####Installing from source You can run Meson directly from a revision control checkout or an extracted tarball. Meson is also available from PyPi, so it can be installed with 'pip install meson'. - -Running +####Running Meson requires that you have a source directory and a build directory and that these two are different. In your source root must exist a file called 'meson.build'. To generate the build system run this command: -meson <source directory> <build directory> +`meson <source directory> <build directory>` You can omit either of the two directories, and Meson will substitute the current directory and autodetect what you mean. This allows you to do things like this: -cd source_root; mkdir build; cd build; meson .. -cd source_root; mkdir build; meson build +`cd source_root; mkdir build; cd build; meson ..` +`cd source_root; mkdir build; meson build` -To compile, cd into your build directory and type 'ninja'. To run unit -tests, type 'ninja test'. +To compile, cd into your build directory and type `ninja`. To run unit +tests, type `ninja test`. Install is the same but it can take an extra argument: -DESTDIR=/destdir/path ninja install +`DESTDIR=/destdir/path ninja install` -DESTDIR can be omitted. If you are installing to system directories, +`DESTDIR` can be omitted. If you are installing to system directories, you may need to run this command with sudo. -Contributing +####Contributing We love code contributions. See the contributing.txt file for details. @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ IRC The irc channel for Meson is #mesonbuild over at freenode. -Further info +####Further info The home page of Meson can be found here: |