[FriBidi] fribidi and meson

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 10:48:32AM +0000, John Emmas wrote:
> Until a few days ago I'd been building a library called 'pango' (which used
> its own miniature version of fribidi).  However, the miniature version's
> been dropped very recently so I downloaded fribidi from git.  I soon noticed
> that there are no MSVC projects but that it can be built with Meson (which
> apparently does generate MSVC project files).  I've never used Meson before
> so I had to install that as well... :-(
> 
> After reading the Meson "quick start" guide I issued this from a command
> line:-
> 
>       meson builddir && cd builddir
> 
> It did produce a "builddir" subdirectory but the directory seems to be
> mostly empty.  It's built something called 'sanitycheck.exe' but I'm not
> seeing an MSVC library, nor any project files for building one.  This is my
> first attempt at Meson so I'm probably doing something stupid.  Do I need to
> use a different command?  Many thanks,

Please consult the official documentation, FriBiDi’s mailing list might
not be the best place to ask about meson:
http://mesonbuild.com

Regards,
Khaled