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author | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com> | 2018-06-04 00:05:30 +0530 |
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committer | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com> | 2018-06-03 18:59:24 +0000 |
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docs: Add a section about the MSI installer [skip ci]
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Getting-meson.md b/docs/markdown/Getting-meson.md index ab6fe41..29f2424 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Getting-meson.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Getting-meson.md @@ -22,14 +22,23 @@ a pull-request process that runs CI and tests several platforms. ## Installing Meson with pip -Meson is also available in the [Python Package Index] and can be -installed with `pip3 install meson` to install it system-wide and requires root. +Meson is available in the [Python Package Index] and can be installed with +`pip3 install meson` which requires root and will install it system-wide. Alternatively, you can use `pip3 install --user meson` which will install it for your user and does not require any special privileges. This will install the package in `~/.local/`, so you will have to add `~/.local/bin` to your `PATH`. +## Installing Meson and Ninja with the MSI installer + +We provide an MSI installer on the [GitHub release page] that can be used to +install both Meson and Ninja at once for Windows. It also contains an embedded +copy of Python, so scripts that use the [Python module](Python-module.md) and +do not have any external dependencies will continue to work as expected. + +Please note that this is a new feature, so bug reports are expected and welcome! + ## Dependencies In the most common case, you will need the [Ninja executable] for using the |