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authorDylan Baker <[email protected]>2019-06-11 11:25:31 -0700
committerDylan Baker <[email protected]>2019-10-10 16:33:05 -0700
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docs: update meson docs for windows
Acked-by: Kristian H. Kristensen <[email protected]>
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<h4>Build system</h4>
<ul>
-<li><a href="https://mesonbuild.com">meson</a> is required when building on *nix platforms.
-<li><a href="http://www.scons.org/">SCons</a> is required for building on
-Windows and optional for Linux (it's an alternative to meson.)
+<li><a href="https://mesonbuild.com">meson</a> is required when building on *nix platforms and is supported on windows.
+<li><a href="http://www.scons.org/">SCons</a> is an alternative for building on
+Windows and Linux.
</li>
<li>Android Build system when building as native Android component. Meson
is used when when building ARC.
@@ -109,8 +109,7 @@ the packaging tool used by your distro.
<p>
Meson is the latest build system in mesa, it is currently able to build for
-*nix systems like Linux and BSD, macOS, Haiku, and will be able to build for
-windows as well.
+*nix systems like Linux and BSD, macOS, Haiku, and Windows.
</p>
<p>
@@ -121,6 +120,14 @@ The general approach is:
ninja -C builddir/
sudo ninja -C builddir/ install
</pre>
+
+<p>On windows you can also use the visual studio backend</p>
+<pre>
+ meson builddir --backend=vs
+ cd builddir
+ msbuild mesa.sln /m
+</pre>
+
<p>
Please read the <a href="meson.html">detailed meson instructions</a>
for more information