mesonbuild/meson-python

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The Python build backend for Meson projects

Stars: 180
Forks: 93
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 43
Avg merge: 2d 7h
Merged PRs (30d): 18

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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43 open issues indexed

Expected behavior for RPATH handling Open

documentation enhancement tests

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#903 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Possible breakage against `beartype`? Open

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#871 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Possible unhandled `StopIteration` Open

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#869 · Opened Jul 8, 2026
pip install overrides existing build configuration Open

question

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#851 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 14, 2026
Support for PEP 808 (partially dynamic metadata) Open

enhancement

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#848 · 3 comments · Opened May 19, 2026
Can't build a project that contain only ``library()`` Open

bug dependency-bug

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#842 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2026
install_mode is ignored Open

bug

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#841 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2026
Default -Dbuildtype=release cannot be overridden by native file Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#828 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 7, 2026
libdir inexplicitly overriden when installing a shared library from a subproject Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#817 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2025
Duplicate entries in RPATH Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#813 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 31, 2025
Support for PEP 794 (import name metadata) Open

enhancement

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#809 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 29, 2025
Allow the user to specify `limited-api` from the command line Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#787 · 31 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2025
Windows x86_64 Python on an ARM host: Builds fail with architecture mismatch Open

blocked enhancement help wanted

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#776 · 19 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2025
Editable install of a PEP 420 namespace package shadows other packages in the same namespace Open

bug

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#775 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 7, 2025
Editable install doesn't provide/link `datadir` Open

not-a-bug question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#774 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 6, 2025
Support for PEP 770 (SBOMs) Open

enhancement

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#763 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 10, 2025
Add a test package and docs for the "C/C++ lib with optional Python bindings" use case Open

documentation tests

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#744 · Opened May 2, 2025
Provide an option to turn off the rebuild-on-import feature of editable installs. Open

enhancement

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#730 · 19 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 16, 2025
RPATH goes missing when using both `install_rpath` and an internal shared library dependency Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#711 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 6, 2024
Add a new docs section "Building a package" Open

documentation

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#686 · Opened Oct 19, 2024
Add `uv build` to the example command lines in the documentation Open

documentation

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#683 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 16, 2024
mesonpy embeds random path into .o files for debug build Open

documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#671 · 31 comments · Opened Sep 27, 2024
pytest assertion rewriting does not seem to work with meson editable install Open

dependency-bug

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#646 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 3, 2024
Document how to use pytest in packages using meson-python Open

documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#642 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 17, 2024
Allow better control over wheel tags Open

bug enhancement

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#639 · 10 comments · Opened May 29, 2024
Document how to use generated Cython `.pxi` headers Open

documentation

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#589 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 1, 2024
Document how to bundle executables in wheels Open

documentation

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#541 · Opened Nov 18, 2023
Document how editable installations work Open

documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#538 · Opened Nov 18, 2023
Document how installed files are mapped into the built wheel Open

documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#537 · Opened Nov 18, 2023
wrong mapping of "datadir" variable Open

question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#517 · 8 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2023
Better error message for editable installs with missing --no-build-isolation Open

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#512 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 5, 2023
Amend documentation to reflect that `meson install` is not run Open

documentation

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#473 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2023
Dynamic control over ninja parallelism, or generic dynamic features Open

enhancement

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#416 · 16 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 11, 2023
Document meson-pythons requirements for the "install_dir" option of e.g. configure_file Open

documentation

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#402 · 11 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2023
Support cross compiling Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#321 · 65 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 24, 2023
Pass the kind of build (regular/editable) to meson Open

enhancement

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#256 · 11 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2022
Warn when the user uses `false`, `no`, etc. as configuration values in fields that are enabled by a non-empty value Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#252 · Opened Dec 28, 2022
Improve logging on build failure by displaying file contents of `meson-log.txt` Open

enhancement

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#246 · 33 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Dec 15, 2022
pkgconfig files are installed into "site-packages/.*.mesonpy.libs/pkgconfig" Open

distro-packagers

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#240 · 17 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2022
Document meson-python requirements on how `import('python').find_installation()` is called Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

mesonbuild/meson-python#233 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 24, 2022
Support dynamic version generation, including from git tags and with git commit hashes Open

enhancement

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#159 · 18 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Sep 29, 2022
UX for constraining build-time and runtime dependencies Open

enhancement question

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#29 · 79 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 21, 2022
Handling executables (scripts from the Python POV) that link to distribution libraries Open

needs info

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

mesonbuild/meson-python#3 · 8 comments · Opened Sep 23, 2021

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