Meson build system support about luau HOT 3 CLOSED

Having to support another build system doesn't fill me with joy, but Meson seems to be somewhat popular. How complex is the minimal setup that makes Luau usable? Does Meson allow to use file globs? (this would simplify maintenance of a build system we don't use for future changes)

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Having to support another build system doesn't fill me with joy

CI/CD may check and start unittest in meson for ensure stable of Meson builds.

How complex is the minimal setup that makes Luau usable?

You may meet with example with classic Lua meson build system at
https://github.com/franko/lua/blob/master/src/meson.build

But this example is overloaded by using pkgconfig and separated an few parts and etc.
The main purpose of use Meson build (is providing library as a subproject) is not achieved in example.

I can make and check MVP with meson for Debian system (maybe in December).

Does Meson allow to use file globs?

This is violation of reliability and describe at https://mesonbuild.com/FAQ.html#but-i-really-want-to-use-wildcards
But Meson provide workaround for stubborn developers.

P.S. I think that the main goal using Meson is to provide the ability to embed Luau as easily as it is done with Lua, so that user would not even notice the changes from one to the other, but get significant advantages. For example with use:

//lua_dep = dependency('lua', method : 'pkg-config')
luau_dep = dependency('luau', method : 'pkg-config')

or as subproject with source code recompile:

luau_proj = subproject('libsimple')
luau_dep = luau_proj.get_variable('luau_dep')

For this last code in meson should be:

inc = include_directories('include')
libluau = static_library('luau', sources
  include_directories : inc,
  ....
)

luau_dep = declare_dependency(
   include_directories : inc,
  link_with : libluau)

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I'm going to close this for now since this seems like something that can be achieved with wrapdb similarly to Lua, and we currently use CMake as the main build system. After Luau is added to wrapdb and actually sees use in dependent projects we could re-evaluate this.

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