<h4>Build system</h4>
<ul>
-<li><a href="https://mesonbuild.com">meson</a> is required when building on *nix platforms.
-<li><a href="http://www.scons.org/">SCons</a> is required for building on
-Windows and optional for Linux (it's an alternative to meson.)
+<li><a href="https://mesonbuild.com">meson</a> is required when building on *nix platforms and is supported on windows.
+<li><a href="http://www.scons.org/">SCons</a> is an alternative for building on
+Windows and Linux.
</li>
<li>Android Build system when building as native Android component. Meson
is used when when building ARC.
On Linux systems, flex and bison versions 2.5.35 and 2.4.1, respectively,
(or later) should work.
On Windows with MinGW, install flex and bison with:
+</p>
<pre>mingw-get install msys-flex msys-bison</pre>
+<p>
For MSVC on Windows, install
<a href="http://winflexbison.sourceforge.net/">Win flex-bison</a>.
</p>
<h2 id="meson">2. Building with meson</h2>
-<p><string>Meson &6t;= 0.46.0 is required</string></p>
+<p><strong>Meson >= 0.46.0 is required</strong></p>
+
<p>
Meson is the latest build system in mesa, it is currently able to build for
-*nix systems like Linux and BSD, macOS, Haiku, and will be able to build for
-windows as well.
+*nix systems like Linux and BSD, macOS, Haiku, and Windows.
</p>
<p>
ninja -C builddir/
sudo ninja -C builddir/ install
</pre>
+
+<p>On windows you can also use the visual studio backend</p>
+<pre>
+ meson builddir --backend=vs
+ cd builddir
+ msbuild mesa.sln /m
+</pre>
+
<p>
Please read the <a href="meson.html">detailed meson instructions</a>
for more information