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### Working with the Vala Preprocessor
-Passing arguments to [Vala's preprocessor](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/Manual/Preprocessor) requires specifying the language as `c`. For example, the following statement sets the preprocessor symbol `FUSE_USE_VERSION` to the value `26`:
+Passing arguments to [Vala's preprocessor](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/Manual/Preprocessor) requires specifying the language as `vala`. For example, the following statement sets the preprocessor symbol `USE_FUSE`:
+
+```meson
+add_project_arguments('-D', 'USE_FUSE', language: 'vala')
+```
+
+If you need to pass an argument to the C pre-processor then specify the language as c. For example to set FUSE_USE_VERSION to 26 use:
```meson
add_project_arguments('-DFUSE_USE_VERSION=26', language: 'c')