Experiments with buildung mousepad with meson

[Matthew Brush]

On 2016-10-17 08:12 AM, flo.xfce at gmx-topmail.de wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> Meson is a rather new build system, designed to "not suck". More details
> here: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/wiki
> I took mousepad and added support for building it with meson. You can
> find my efforts here: https://github.com/Flow-It/mousepad
> If you want to try out how fast it builds compared to autotools you need
> meson and ninja installed and this patch for exo:
> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12901
> After that you need to run (in the source root directory):
> mkdir build
> meson build -Denable-maintainer-mode=true
> cd build
> ninja
>
> I don't intend to replace autotools building but just offer a second
> option. In general it should not be necessary to touch any existing
> files. However, I changed the #include directives because of some
> include search path problems

You need to add the top source and build dirs to the include paths, for 
example in autotools it would be:

*_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_builddir)

> and I added a new .desktop template and
> renamed an .ui file (all these changes however could be applied to
> mousepad without supporting meson, it makes building a bit more
> straightforward and increases consistency).
>

How? I just quickly looked but a lot of the changes seem unrelated to 
build system stuff.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush