README.md, README_build: Describe building with Meson

kjellahl · kjellahl · commit 9d026fa8a90f · 2020-01-13T15:07:16.000+01:00
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -33,6 +33,18 @@ packages.
 
 Building from the [libsigc++ release tarball](https://github.com/libsigcplusplus/libsigcplusplus/releases) is easier than building from git.
 
+### Building from a tarball with Meson
+
+For instance:
+```sh
+$ meson --prefix /usr/local --libdir lib yourbuilddir .
+$ cd yourbuilddir
+$ ninja
+$ ninja install
+```
+
+### Building from a tarball with autotools
+
 For instance:
 ```sh
 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
@@ -45,8 +57,21 @@ $ make install
 Building from git can be difficult so you should prefer building from a release
 tarball unless you need to work on the libsigc++ code itself.
 
-To build from git you may use either the autotools build (used by most
-developers) or CMake (should work too).
+To build from git you may use either the meson build (added in December 2019),
+the autotools build (used by most developers in the past) or CMake (should work too).
+
+### Building from git with Meson
+
+You must have meson properly installed (meson, ninja, etc) and you
+will also need [mm-common](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mm-common/)
+version 1.0.0 or higher.
+
+```sh
+$ meson --prefix /usr/local --libdir lib yourbuilddir .
+$ cd yourbuilddir
+$ ninja
+$ ninja test
+```
 
 ### Building from git with autotools
 
@@ -73,3 +98,6 @@ $ cmake path/to/libsigcplusplus
 $ make
 ```
 
+## Building with Microsoft Visual C++
+
+See MSVC_NMake/README.txt.
diff --git a/README_build b/README_build
@@ -3,9 +3,25 @@
 On Linux, you would ideally get libsigc++ from your distro's official package.
 However, this is about building from source.
 
+## Meson
+
+libsigc++ uses Meson as one of its main build systems,
+so you can build or install with the regular meson/ninja steps.
+For instance:
+  meson --prefix /opt/something --libdir lib yourbuilddir .
+then
+  cd yourbuilddir
+  ninja
+  ninja install
+You can run the tests like so:
+  ninja test
+We create the tarball release like so:
+  ninja dist
+
+
 ## autotools
 
-libsigc++ uses autotools as its main build system,
+libsigc++ uses autotools as one of its main build systems,
 so you can build or install with the regular configure/make steps.
 For instance:
   ./configure --prefix=/opt/something
