running scanner in wayland-main

[Daniel Stone]

Hi Egy,

On Mon, 16 May 2022 at 15:09, Egy Ketto <kettoegy787 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm digging the source code of wayland and weston. I'm stuck at getting the code generated by wayland-scanner. I was following the build instructions for wayland:
>
> $ git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland.git
> $ cd wayland
> $ meson build/ --prefix=PREFIX //(which I set to wayland/build)
> $ ninja -C build/ install
>
> but I get the error:
>
> meson.build:83:1: ERROR: lexer
>
> Can someone please help me with this?

Which version of Meson are you using? I don't understand how the root
meson.build could cause Meson to not be able to parse.

Cheese,
Daniel