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Before mesom/ninja, you had one problem - install gmake. Now you have three problems - install python, ninja and meson ;)

Maybe fourth - learn how to use it



> Before mesom/ninja, you had one problem - install gmake.

No, you had as many problems as there are '%' and '$' symbols in this web page : http://www.cs.colby.edu/maxwell/courses/tutorials/maketutor/ multiplied by the number of permutations of tools in the different platforms you want to support, e.g. (gcc-mingw-windows, clang-cl-windows, msvc-windows (this one counts as 10), xcode-macos, gcc-macos). And let's not even get started with cross-compiling.




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