Unknown method "find_library" in object with only sample code.

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:43 PM, 박민호 <loca2tango at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hello  I have a problem compiling with sample codes. The error is in red
> color text.
> Thank you for your reply in advance.
>
> 1. error message
> jts at jts:~/gst-examples/playback/player/gst-play$ meson builddir
> The Meson build system
> Version: 0.29.0

Your version of Meson is too old. Please update to the latest version
(0.40.1). You can get this via `pip3 --user` (which will install in
~/local/.bin) or you can clone the git repository, checkout the 0.40.1
tag, and run ./meson.py (you can also symlink it into ~/.local/bin/ or
something).

> Source dir: /home/jts/gst-examples/playback/player/gst-play
> Build dir: /home/jts/gst-examples/playback/player/gst-play/builddir
> Build type: native build
> Build machine cpu family: x86_64
> Build machine cpu: x86_64
> Project name: gst-player
> Native c compiler: cc (gcc 5.4.0-6ubuntu1)
> Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.1)
> Native dependency gstreamer-1.0 found: YES 1.8.3
> Native dependency gstreamer-player-1.0 found: YES 1.8.3
>
> Meson encountered an error in file meson.build, line 6, column 0:
> Unknown method "find_library" in object.
>
> 2. file: meson.build
>
> jts at jts:~/gst-examples/playback/player/gst-play$ cat *.build
> project ('gst-player','c')   => I append this
> gst_dep = dependency('gstreamer-1.0')
> gstplayer_dep = dependency('gstreamer-player-1.0', version: '>= 1.7.1.1')
>
> cc = meson.get_compiler('c')
> m_dep = cc.find_library('m', required : true)
>
> executable('gst-play',
>     ['gst-play.c',
>      'gst-play-kb.c',
>      'gst-play-kb.h'],
>     dependencies : [gst_dep, gstplayer_dep, m_dep])
>
>
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