Nibble Stew

A gathering of development thoughts of Jussi Pakkanen. Some of you may know him as the creator of the Meson build system. jpakkane at gmail dot com

Thursday, March 29, 2018

And now for something completely different

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If anyone has been wondering why merge requests have not been reviewed fast enough recently, here is one of the reasons.
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Stop trying to guess display language based on keyboard layout

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A very common setup among non-English speaking computer power users is to have display language in English but have a country specific keybo...
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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Compiling Cargo crates natively with Meson

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Recently we have been having discussions about how Rust and Meson should work together, especially for mixed language projects. One thing wh...
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Thursday, March 1, 2018

On the unoptimalities of language specific build systems

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A fairly big recent trend has been the emergence of new programming languages that are meant to be compiled into machine code. The silent (a...
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Monday, February 19, 2018

Projects and features Meson could use help with

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A question I was asked during my LCA2018 presentation was how people could help the Meson project. I could not come up with proper projects...
Friday, February 16, 2018

Automatically finding slow headers in C++ projects

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A common problem in older C++ codebases is that sources compile slowly due to massive header includes. Headers include other headers, which ...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Meson's dependency manager in action building GTK

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One of the greatest things about creating software is seeing other people pick it up and run with it. Here is a great example of GTK's n...
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