Add initial Meson build file
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
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+project(
+ 'jsoncpp',
+ 'cpp',
+ version : '1.8.0',
+ default_options : [
+ 'buildtype=release',
+ 'warning_level=1'],
+ license : 'Public Domain',
+ meson_version : '>= 0.41.1')
+
+jsoncpp_ver_arr = meson.project_version().split('.')
+jsoncpp_major_version = jsoncpp_ver_arr[0]
+jsoncpp_minor_version = jsoncpp_ver_arr[1]
+jsoncpp_patch_version = jsoncpp_ver_arr[2]
+
+jsoncpp_cdata = configuration_data()
+jsoncpp_cdata.set('JSONCPP_VERSION', meson.project_version())
+jsoncpp_cdata.set('JSONCPP_VERSION_MAJOR', jsoncpp_major_version)
+jsoncpp_cdata.set('JSONCPP_VERSION_MINOR', jsoncpp_minor_version)
+jsoncpp_cdata.set('JSONCPP_VERSION_PATCH', jsoncpp_patch_version)
+
+jsoncpp_gen_sources = configure_file(
+ input : 'src/lib_json/version.h.in',
+ output : 'version.h',
+ configuration : jsoncpp_cdata,
+ install : true,
+ install_dir : join_paths(get_option('prefix'), get_option('includedir'), 'json')
+)
+
+jsoncpp_headers = [
+ 'include/json/allocator.h',
+ 'include/json/assertions.h',
+ 'include/json/autolink.h',
+ 'include/json/config.h',
+ 'include/json/features.h',
+ 'include/json/forwards.h',
+ 'include/json/json.h',
+ 'include/json/reader.h',
+ 'include/json/value.h',
+ 'include/json/writer.h']
+jsoncpp_include_directories = include_directories('include')
+
+install_headers(
+ jsoncpp_headers,
+ subdir : 'json')
+
+jsoncpp_lib = library(
+ 'jsoncpp',
+ [ jsoncpp_gen_sources,
+ jsoncpp_headers,
+ 'src/lib_json/json_tool.h',
+ 'src/lib_json/json_reader.cpp',
+ 'src/lib_json/json_value.cpp',
+ 'src/lib_json/json_writer.cpp'],
+ soversion : 18,
+ install : true,
+ include_directories : jsoncpp_include_directories)
+
+import('pkgconfig').generate(
+ libraries : jsoncpp_lib,
+ version : meson.project_version(),
+ name : 'jsoncpp',
+ filebase : 'jsoncpp',
+ description : 'A C++ library for interacting with JSON')
+
+# for libraries bundling jsoncpp
+declare_dependency(
+ include_directories : jsoncpp_include_directories,
+ link_with : jsoncpp_lib,
+ version : meson.project_version(),
+ sources : jsoncpp_gen_sources)
+
+# tests
+python = import('python3').find_python()
+
+jsoncpp_test = executable(
+ 'jsoncpp_test',
+ [ 'src/test_lib_json/jsontest.cpp',
+ 'src/test_lib_json/jsontest.h',
+ 'src/test_lib_json/main.cpp'],
+ include_directories : jsoncpp_include_directories,
+ link_with : jsoncpp_lib,
+ install : false)
+test(
+ 'unittest_jsoncpp_test',
+ jsoncpp_test)
+
+jsontestrunner = executable(
+ 'jsontestrunner',
+ 'src/jsontestrunner/main.cpp',
+ include_directories : jsoncpp_include_directories,
+ link_with : jsoncpp_lib,
+ install : false)
+test(
+ 'unittest_jsontestrunner',
+ python,
+ args : [
+ '-B',
+ join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'test/runjsontests.py'),
+ jsontestrunner,
+ join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'test/data')]
+ )