Meson Build System

by The Meson Development Team

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Versions:

  • 1.9.1
  • 1.9.0
  • 1.8.2
  • 1.8.1
  • 1.8.0
  • 1.7.1
  • 1.7.0
  • 1.6.1
  • 1.6.0
  • 1.4.1
  • 1.4.0
  • 1.2.2
  • 1.2.1
  • 1.2.0
  • 1.1.1
  • 1.1.0
  • 1.0.1
  • 1.0.0
  • 0.64.1
  • 0.64.0
  • 0.63.3
  • 0.63.2
  • 0.63.1
  • 0.63.0
  • 0.62.1
  • 0.62.0
  • 0.61.4
  • 0.61.3
  • 0.61.2
  • 0.61.1
  • 0.61.0
  • 0.60.3
  • 0.60.2
  • 0.60.1
  • 0.60.0
  • 0.59.4
  • 0.59.3
  • 0.59.2
  • 0.59.1
  • 0.59.0
  • 0.58.1

Meson Build System, maintained by The Meson Development Team, is an open-source build automation tool that belongs to the Developer Tools / Build Automation category and is currently offered in version 1.9.1, the forty-first public release since the project’s inception. Designed from the ground up to be the “next-generation build system,” Meson emphasizes two core objectives: maximum speed and exceptional usability. Its internal architecture leverages Ninja as the default backend, allowing large codebases to configure and compile in fractions of the time required by traditional Make-based workflows, while still supporting Visual Studio and Xcode generators for multi-platform development. The declarative DSL syntax reduces boilerplate, provides built-in options for cross-compilation, dependency detection, and caching, and exposes intuitive commands such as meson setup, meson compile, and meson test that make onboarding new contributors straightforward. Typical use cases range from small C/C++ libraries and Python extension modules to full operating-system components like those found in GNOME, systemd, and Mesa; embedded teams also value its deterministic introspection data for Yocto and Android BSPs. Because Meson keeps build description files (meson.build) concise and enforces out-of-source builds, continuous-integration pipelines can cache configured trees and parallelize jobs across Linux, macOS, Windows, and the *BSDs without additional scripting. The software is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources (e.g. winget), always delivering the latest version, and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.

Tags:

build-system 2
foss 91
meson 2
ninja 1
open-source 132