Meson projects

Install Meson

1. Follow the official installation guide to install Meson on your system.

Open Meson projects

1. Select File | Open from the main menu or click Open on the Welcome screen.

2. Point CLion to the directory containing meson.build and click Open.

3. CLion will load the Meson project structure and show the results in the Build tool window:

   

Configure the toolchain and build options for Meson

1. Go to Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Meson.

2. In this dialog, you can configure the toolchain, build directory, and build options for your project:

   

Edit meson.build and reload the project

• When you make changes in meson.build, CLion shows an icon suggesting to reload the project:

  

  Click the icon or press the shortcut.

• Alternatively, you can reload the project by using the actions in Tools | Meson:

  

  Use Wipe and reload Meson Project to preform wipe before reload.

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  From this menu, you can also Change project root.

Run/debug configurations for Meson

• CLion detects the project build targets and creates the Native Application configurations for them:

  

• In the main menu, go to Run | Edit Configurations to set up additional parameters if required:

  

Build, run, and debug

• Use the actions in the Build menu to build the project or the selected configuration.

  

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  Learn more in Build actions.

• To run or debug your program, you can use the configuration widget (click or ), the Run menu, or the gutter icons next to the program's entry point:

  

  Refer to Run applications and Debug for more information.