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jeremyjhtoday at 12:40 AM2 repliesview on HN

Whats an example of magic in the meson.build that you don't understand? I think this is the first meson.build I've ever looked at and it seems very straightforward.


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gregdaniels421today at 1:27 AM

Didn't say I didn't understand it, I just said it was less explicit. Read through the Zig and it is super clear what every step is doing, and it sets things much more explicitly than the meson build

``` const wayland_version_header = b.addConfigHeader(.{ .style = .{ .cmake = upstream.path("src/wayland-version.h.in") }, }, .{ .WAYLAND_VERSION_MAJOR = @as(i64, @intCast(version.major)), .WAYLAND_VERSION_MINOR = @as(i64, @intCast(version.minor)), .WAYLAND_VERSION_MICRO = @as(i64, @intCast(version.patch)), .WAYLAND_VERSION = b.fmt("{f}", .{version}), });

```

which is doing some config automake work. Which Meson does implicitly(magically).

pmarrecktoday at 12:53 AM

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