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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Dependencies.md b/docs/markdown/Dependencies.md index 189db72..6653cc1 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Dependencies.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Dependencies.md @@ -89,12 +89,16 @@ to build dependencies manually when they are not. To make this work, the dependency must have Meson build definitions and it must declare its own dependency like this: +```meson foo_dep = declare_dependency(...) +``` Then any project that wants to use it can write out the following declaration in their main `meson.build` file. +```meson foo_dep = dependency('foo', fallback : ['foo', 'foo_dep']) +``` What this declaration means is that first Meson tries to look up the dependency from the system (such as by using pkg-config). If it is not |