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# Reference manual

This is the root page of the online Meson reference manual. This
manual is also available in a more machine readable format as a
JSON documented attached to every release since *0.60.0*. See our
[IDE integration](IDE-integration.md) documentation for more
information.

All functions and methods are documented in detail in the
following subpages:

## Elementary types

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## Functions

The following functions are available in build files. Click on each
to see the description and usage. The objects returned by them are
[listed here](#returned-objects).

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## Builtin objects

These are built-in objects that are always available.

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## Returned objects

These are objects that can be returned by [functions](#functions)
or other methods.

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## Modules

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