From 66f3ba9fd0fd19c4ebf94ce3873723a83046f4b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 09:34:55 -0700
Subject: Docs: Make the suggested use for the not-found dependency better
 [skip ci]

---
 docs/markdown/howtox.md | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'docs/markdown/howtox.md')

diff --git a/docs/markdown/howtox.md b/docs/markdown/howtox.md
index abf7519..84546b7 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/howtox.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/howtox.md
@@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ This can be used in cases where you want a default value, but might override it
 later.
 
 ```meson
+# Not needed on Windows!
 my_dep = dependency('', required : false)
 if host_machine.system() in ['freebsd', 'netbsd', 'openbsd', 'dragonfly']
   my_dep = dependency('some dep', required : false)
@@ -278,8 +279,9 @@ elif host_machine.system() == 'linux'
   my_dep = dependency('some other dep', required : false)
 endif
 
-# Last ditch effort!
-if no my_dep.found()
-  my_dep = meson.get_compiler('c').find_library('dep')
-endif
+executable(
+  'myexe',
+  my_sources,
+  deps : [my_dep]
+)
 ```
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