diff --git a/docs/meson.html b/docs/meson.html index 77f89b0c6c7..b8877585112 100644 --- a/docs/meson.html +++ b/docs/meson.html @@ -18,11 +18,20 @@

1. Basic Usage

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The Meson build system for Mesa is still under active development, -and should not be used in production environments.

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The Meson build system is generally considered stable and ready +for production

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The meson build is currently only tested on linux, and is known to not work -on macOS, Windows, and haiku. This will be fixed.

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The meson build is tested on on Linux, macOS, Cygwin and Haiku, it should +work on FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.

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Mesa requires Meson >= 0.42.0 to build in general. + +Additionaly, to build the Clover OpenCL state tracker or the OpenSWR driver +meson 0.44.0 or greater is required. + +Some older versions of meson do not check that they are too old and will error +out in odd ways. +

The meson program is used to configure the source directory and generates @@ -111,6 +120,7 @@ change compiler in a configured build directory. +

LLVM

Meson includes upstream logic to wrap llvm-config using it's standard dependncy interface. It will search $PATH (or %PATH% on windows) for @@ -119,15 +129,15 @@ llvm-config, so using an LLVM from a non-standard path is as easy as

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PKG_CONFIG_PATH

The pkg-config utility is a hard requirement for configuring and -building Mesa on Linux and *BSD. It is used to search for external libraries -on the system. This environment variable is used to control the search -path for pkg-config. For instance, setting -PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig will search for -package metadata in /usr/X11R6 before the standard -directories.

+building Mesa on Unix-like systems. It is used to search for external libraries +on the system. This environment variable is used to control the search path for +pkg-config. For instance, setting +PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig will search for package +metadata in /usr/X11R6 before the standard directories.

@@ -151,9 +161,9 @@ may interfer with debbugging as some code and validation will be optimized away.

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For those wishing to pass their own -O option, use the "plain" buildtype, -which cuases meson to inject no additional compiler arguments, only those in -the C/CXXFLAGS and those that mesa itself defines.

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For those wishing to pass their own optimization flags, use the "plain" +buildtype, which causes meson to inject no additional compiler arguments, only +those in the C/CXXFLAGS and those that mesa itself defines.