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

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Easy MSI installer creator

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Shipping programs on Windows platforms becomes a lot simpler (especially in corporate environments) if you can create an MSI installer. The ...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Dependencies with code generators got a lot smoother with Meson 0.46.0

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Most dependencies are libraries. Almost all build systems can find dependency libraries from the system using e.g. pkg-config. Some can buil...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Cookie purging the simple way

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Getting rid of cookies (especially tracking and ad cookies) consistently is a good thing. However it turns out to be a bit tricky because yo...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Comparing Meson with Bazel on a Raspberry Pi 3

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In this experiment we compile Google's Abseil C++ libraries with Bazel and also with Meson as a simple comparison of how they behave. ...
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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