<pre>
sudo dnf install meson # Fedora
</pre>
-
+<p>
Some older versions of meson do not check that they are too old and will error
out in odd ways.
</p>
href="https://chocolatey.org/">chocolatey</a>.
</p>
<pre>
- choco install python3 winflexbison pkgconfiglite
+choco install python3 winflexbison pkgconfiglite
</pre>
<p>You can even use chocolatey to install mingw and ninja (ninja can be used with MSVC as well)</p>
<pre>
- choco install ninja mingw
+choco install ninja mingw
</pre>
<p>Then install meson using pip</p>
<pre>
- py -3 -m pip install meson mako
+py -3 -m pip install meson mako
</pre>
You may need to add the python3 scripts directory to your path for meson.
<h2 id="advanced">3. Advanced Usage</h2>
-<dl>
-
-<dt>Installation Location</dt>
-<dd>
+<h3>Installation Location</h3>
<p>
Meson default to installing libGL.so in your system's main lib/ directory
and DRI drivers to a dri/ subdirectory.
<p>
Meson also honors <code>DESTDIR</code> for installs.
</p>
-</dd>
-<dt>Compiler Options</dt>
-<dd>
+<h3>Compiler Options</h3>
<p>Meson supports the common CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, etc. environment
variables but their use is discouraged because of the many caveats
in using them.
<pre>
meson builddir/ -Dc_args=-fmax-errors=10 -Dcpp_args=-DMAGIC=123
</pre>
-</dd>
-<dt>Compiler Specification</dt>
-<dd>
+<h3>Compiler Specification</h3>
<p>
Meson supports the standard CC and CXX environment variables for
changing the default compiler. Note that Meson does not allow
the popular compilers, a complete list is available
<a href="https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-tables.html#compiler-ids">here</a>.
</p>
-</dd>
-<dt>LLVM</dt>
-<dd><p>Meson includes upstream logic to wrap llvm-config using its standard
+<h3>LLVM</h3>
+<p>Meson includes upstream logic to wrap llvm-config using its standard
dependency interface.
-</p></dd>
+</p>
+<p>
+As of meson 0.51.0 meson can use cmake to find llvm (the cmake finder
+was added in meson 0.49.0, but LLVM cannot be found until 0.51) Due to the
+way LLVM implements its cmake finder it will only find static libraries, it
+will never find libllvm.so.
-<dd><p>
+There is also a <code>-Dcmake_module_path</code> option in this meson version,
+which points to the root of an alternative installation (the prefix). For
+example:
+</p>
+<pre>
+meson builddir -Dcmake_module_path=/home/user/mycmake/prefix
+</pre>
+
+<p>
As of meson 0.49.0 meson also has the concept of a
<a href="https://mesonbuild.com/Native-environments.html">"native file"</a>,
these files provide information about the native build environment (as opposed
custom-llvm.ini
<pre>
- [binaries]
- llvm-config = '/usr/local/bin/llvm/llvm-config'
+[binaries]
+llvm-config = '/usr/local/bin/llvm/llvm-config'
</pre>
Then configure meson:
<pre>
- meson builddir/ --native-file custom-llvm.ini
+meson builddir/ --native-file custom-llvm.ini
</pre>
-</dd>
-<dd><p>
+<p>
Meson < 0.49 doesn't support native files, so to specify a custom
<code>llvm-config</code> you need to modify your <code>$PATH</code> (or
<code>%PATH%</code> on windows), which will be searched for
<pre>
PATH=/path/to/folder/with/llvm-config:$PATH meson build
</pre>
-</dd>
-<dd><p>
+<p>
For selecting llvm-config for cross compiling a
<a href="https://mesonbuild.com/Cross-compilation.html#defining-the-environment">"cross file"</a>
should be used. It uses the same format as the native file above:
<p>cross-llvm.ini</p>
<pre>
- [binaries]
- ...
- llvm-config = '/usr/lib/llvm-config-32'
+[binaries]
+...
+llvm-config = '/usr/lib/llvm-config-32'
+cmake = '/usr/bin/cmake-for-my-arch'
</pre>
+<p>Obviously, only cmake or llvm-config is required.</p>
+
<p>Then configure meson:</p>
<pre>
- meson builddir/ --cross-file cross-llvm.ini
+meson builddir/ --cross-file cross-llvm.ini
</pre>
See the <a href="#cross-compilation">Cross Compilation</a> section for more information.
-</dd>
-<dt><code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code></dt>
-<dd><p>The
+<p>On windows (and in other cases), using llvm-config or cmake may be
+either undesirable or impossible. Meson's solution for this is a
+<a href="https://mesonbuild.com/Wrap-dependency-system-manual.html">wrap</a>, in
+this case a "binary wrap". Follow the steps below:</p>
+<ul>
+ <li>Install the binaries and headers into the <code>$mesa_src/subprojects/llvm</code></li>
+ <li>Add a meson build.build file to that directory (more on that later)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The wrap file must define the following:</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><code>dep_llvm</code>: a <code>declare_dependency()</code> object with include_directories, dependencies, and version set)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>It may also define:</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><code>irbuilder_h</code>: a <code>files()</code> object pointing to llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h (this is requred for SWR)</li>
+ <li><code>has_rtti</code>: a <code>bool</code> that declares whether LLVM was built with RTTI. Defaults to true</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>such a meson.build file might look like:</p>
+<pre>
+project('llvm', ['cpp'])
+
+cpp = meson.get_compiler('cpp')
+
+_deps = []
+_search = join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'lib')
+foreach d : ['libLLVMCodeGen', 'libLLVMScalarOpts', 'libLLVMAnalysis',
+ 'libLLVMTransformUtils', 'libLLVMCore', 'libLLVMX86CodeGen',
+ 'libLLVMSelectionDAG', 'libLLVMipo', 'libLLVMAsmPrinter',
+ 'libLLVMInstCombine', 'libLLVMInstrumentation', 'libLLVMMC',
+ 'libLLVMGlobalISel', 'libLLVMObjectYAML', 'libLLVMDebugInfoPDB',
+ 'libLLVMVectorize', 'libLLVMPasses', 'libLLVMSupport',
+ 'libLLVMLTO', 'libLLVMObject', 'libLLVMDebugInfoCodeView',
+ 'libLLVMDebugInfoDWARF', 'libLLVMOrcJIT', 'libLLVMProfileData',
+ 'libLLVMObjCARCOpts', 'libLLVMBitReader', 'libLLVMCoroutines',
+ 'libLLVMBitWriter', 'libLLVMRuntimeDyld', 'libLLVMMIRParser',
+ 'libLLVMX86Desc', 'libLLVMAsmParser', 'libLLVMTableGen',
+ 'libLLVMFuzzMutate', 'libLLVMLinker', 'libLLVMMCParser',
+ 'libLLVMExecutionEngine', 'libLLVMCoverage', 'libLLVMInterpreter',
+ 'libLLVMTarget', 'libLLVMX86AsmParser', 'libLLVMSymbolize',
+ 'libLLVMDebugInfoMSF', 'libLLVMMCJIT', 'libLLVMXRay',
+ 'libLLVMX86AsmPrinter', 'libLLVMX86Disassembler',
+ 'libLLVMMCDisassembler', 'libLLVMOption', 'libLLVMIRReader',
+ 'libLLVMLibDriver', 'libLLVMDlltoolDriver', 'libLLVMDemangle',
+ 'libLLVMBinaryFormat', 'libLLVMLineEditor',
+ 'libLLVMWindowsManifest', 'libLLVMX86Info', 'libLLVMX86Utils']
+ _deps += cpp.find_library(d, dirs : _search)
+endforeach
+
+dep_llvm = declare_dependency(
+ include_directories : include_directories('include'),
+ dependencies : _deps,
+ version : '6.0.0',
+)
+
+has_rtti = false
+irbuilder_h = files('include/llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h')
+</pre>
+
+<p>It is very important that version is defined and is accurate, if it is not,
+workarounds for the wrong version of LLVM might be used resulting in build
+failures.</p>
+
+<h3><code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code></h3>
+<p>The
<code>pkg-config</code> utility is a hard requirement for configuring and
building Mesa on Unix-like systems. It is used to search for external libraries
on the system. This environment variable is used to control the search path for
<code>pkg-config</code>. For instance, setting
<code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig</code> will search for package
metadata in <code>/usr/X11R6</code> before the standard directories.</p>
-</dd>
-</dl>
+<h3>Options</h3>
<p>
One of the oddities of meson is that some options are different when passed to
the <code>meson</code> than to <code>meson configure</code>. These options are