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The Meson Build System

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Dominant language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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1,747 open issues indexed

MSVC/Ninja: b_pgo=generate inserts /link before source files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

mesonbuild/meson#16217 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Deprecate passing an argument to `import('python').find_installation()` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mesonbuild/meson#16205 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2026
gegl build: Error "path must not be in the build tree" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

mesonbuild/meson#16199 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 9, 2026
rust-project.json sysroot_src not alwas valid Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

mesonbuild/meson#16197 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2026
cpp_rtti=false ignored for objective c++ sources Open

bug compilers language:objc++ options

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

mesonbuild/meson#16189 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 4, 2026
`meson wrap install` can be confusing Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

mesonbuild/meson#16183 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[Feature] Single-dependency file Open

design discussion subprojects/wraps

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mesonbuild/meson#16162 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2026
NVHPC/PGI builds generate no header dependencies (get_dependency_gen_args not implemented) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

mesonbuild/meson#16160 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Wrong typing annotations, unexpected errors and more with both_libraries Open

bug parser/interpreter

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mesonbuild/meson#16159 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
gpgme, libgcrypt tests are always skipped with newer versions Open

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mesonbuild/meson#16157 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
cargo: Meson is not able to automatically handle path dependencies in workspaces Open

documentation module:rust

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mesonbuild/meson#16136 · 14 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2026
`gnome.generate_gir` should set `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`s to use the dependent built libraries Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

mesonbuild/meson#16127 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Run tests with `ASAN_OPTIONS=verify_asan_link_order=false` (or also preload the sanitizer) when `LD_PRELOAD`'ing a library Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mesonbuild/meson#16126 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Cannot specify compiler on command line Open

enhancement machine files

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

mesonbuild/meson#16125 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Warning when linking Python extension module written in Rust Open

not-our-bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mesonbuild/meson#16120 · 9 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Support library renaming for linking native libraries in Rust Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mesonbuild/meson#16118 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Duplicated paths in GI_TYPELIB_PATH Open

enhancement module:gnome

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

mesonbuild/meson#16112 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Feature request: Optional tolerance for PermissionError when scanning library directories (Android Termux compatibility) Open

exception

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

mesonbuild/meson#16110 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Meson bug while trying install pandas for python 3.15.0b3 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mesonbuild/meson#16102 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
`meson dist` has issues if the only source of subprojects is Cargo.lock Open

dist

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

mesonbuild/meson#16090 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2026
`-rpath-link` is omitted for GNU ld >= 2.28, but `$ORIGIN` in `-rpath` is expanded against the wrong directory Open

dynamic linkers regression

mesonbuild/meson#16087 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Unable to compile a project with the Fortran compiler ifort Open

bug compilers

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mesonbuild/meson#16076 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
android_exe_type: application may conflict with existing targets Open

documentation OS:android

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mesonbuild/meson#16074 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Many swift tests fail on ubuntu 24.04 Open

language:swift

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mesonbuild/meson#16057 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Passing arrays through `declare_dependency(varialbles: ...)` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mesonbuild/meson#16056 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2026
GCC Fortran MPI flags leaking into Intel C++ build string Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mesonbuild/meson#16052 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 1, 2026
[vs backend] Warning when building `RUN TESTS` Open

backend:visualstudio

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mesonbuild/meson#16044 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
``pkg.generate()`` add ``requires_shared``, ``cflags_shared`` Open

enhancement module:pkgconfig

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

mesonbuild/meson#16035 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Support ld64.lld and wild on MacOS Open

dynamic linkers enhancement OS:macos

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

mesonbuild/meson#16032 · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Add string methods to count bytes and codepoints Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 56/100

mesonbuild/meson#16030 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Python dependency not found in project without `c` language on Windows Open

bug modules:python

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mesonbuild/meson#16024 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Linker to be used with Rust on Windows Open

language:rust

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mesonbuild/meson#16023 · Opened Jul 20, 2026
external project: invokes make with -j$(nproc), incompatible with jobservers Open

modules:external_project

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

mesonbuild/meson#16020 · Opened Jul 19, 2026
Option to specify licenses/license files of cmake subprojects Open

enhancement module:cmake

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mesonbuild/meson#16015 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Support for GNU COBOL Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mesonbuild/meson#16013 · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Meson does not build the standard library module with Clang compiler Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mesonbuild/meson#16009 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 14, 2026
`find_library('libreofficegtk')` reports a false positive warning Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

mesonbuild/meson#16008 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Cython <3.2.5 depfiles are incorrect when files have spaces Open

language:cython meson tests

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mesonbuild/meson#16001 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Incorrect C++/CUDA std passed to cmake subproject Open

bug language:cuda module:cmake

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

mesonbuild/meson#15998 · Opened Jul 12, 2026
Per-subproject options (augments) missing from buildoptions introspection; per-subproject builtin rows regressed vs 1.2.3 Open

introspection options regression

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

mesonbuild/meson#15993 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Introspect Failure for Python with Custom Command in Cross Compilaiton Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

mesonbuild/meson#15985 · Opened Jul 7, 2026
Add MSVC C++23 Preview support Open

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mesonbuild/meson#15981 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 6, 2026
machine subsystem could be used to identify libc for Linux systems Open

machine files

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mesonbuild/meson#15980 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 5, 2026
meson compile cannot invoke run_target in a subproject (ninja backend) Open

meson compile

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

mesonbuild/meson#15976 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 5, 2026
Incorrect `py.get_install_dir()` returned in `meson.build` when creating a python package. Open

modules:python

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mesonbuild/meson#15973 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 3, 2026
Meson examples use wrong way to specify fortran compiler Open

documentation

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mesonbuild/meson#15968 · Opened Jul 1, 2026
Custom Target: support multiple/varadic install modes Open

enhancement install targets

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mesonbuild/meson#15967 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 1, 2026
gnome.mkenums_simple produce unexpected result when multi-line header_prefix is used Open

module:gnome

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

mesonbuild/meson#15956 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 25, 2026
[C++] `-Wsign-conversion` and `-Wfloat-conversion` are missing Open

compilers

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

mesonbuild/meson#15955 · Opened Jun 24, 2026
cargo: parse dev_dependencies and build_dependencies Open

dependencies:cargo subprojects/wraps

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mesonbuild/meson#15944 · Opened Jun 23, 2026

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