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

Friday, November 27, 2020

How Apple might completely take over end users' computers

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Many people are concerned about Apple's ongoing attempts to take more and more control of end user machines from their users. Some go so...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Adding (very) preliminary support for C++ modules in Meson

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One of the most common questions people ask about Meson is why does it not yet have support for building C++ modules. Up until now the answe...
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Monday, November 16, 2020

The Nine Phases of an Open Source Project Maintainer

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There is more to running an open source project than writing code. In fact most of all work has to do with something else. This places addit...
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Saturday, November 7, 2020

Proposal for target-private directories for compilers

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One of the greatest strengths of the classical C compiler model is that all compile jobs are fully isolated. This means that they can be run...
Monday, November 2, 2020

You wanted Boost via Meson subprojects? You got it! (sorta)

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In the previous blog post we saw a way to build SDL transparently as a Meson subproject. In the discussion that followed I got a question o...
Friday, October 30, 2020

How to build dependencies as Meson subprojects using SDL as an example

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Today we released version 0.56.0 of the Meson build system. This is an especially important release as it marks the 10 000th commit since th...
Monday, October 26, 2020

The Meson Manual: Good News, Bad News and Good News

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 Starting with good news, the Meson Manual has been update d to a third edition. In addition to the usual set of typo fixes, there is an ent...
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