short-description: Project templates ...
To make it easier for new developers to start working, Meson ships a tool to generate the basic setup of different kinds of projects. This functionality can be accessed with the meson init command. A typical project setup would go like this:
$ mkdir project_name $ cd project_name $ meson init --language=c --name=myproject --version=0.1
This would create the build definitions for a helloworld type project. The result can be compiled as usual. For example compiling it with Ninja could be done like this:
$ meson builddir $ ninja -C builddir
The generator has many different projects and settings. They can all be listed by invoking the command meson init --help.
This feature is available since Meson version 0.45.0.