Meson v0.60 Build System Brings Numerous Improvements

Meson 0.60 was released on Sunday as the newest version of this increasingly popular and widely-used cross-platform build system.

Meson 0.60 brings a wide variety of updates, some of the highlights with Meson 0.60 include:

- Static linking is now more efficient for uninstalled libraries.

- A Java module has been added to Meson that can generate native header files directly.

- Improvements to the Rustc compiler support, including warning levels, Werror support, and more.

- Meson's Cython support now allows transpiling to C++ as an intermediate language where up to now only C was allowed as an intermediate language.

- Unknown options passed to Meson are now always treated as fatal errors.

- The MSVC compiler support now assumes UTF-8 source code by default.

- Meson's Python module adds support for being able to control where modules are installed by overriding the Python installation paths.

Meson 0.60 can be downloaded from GitHub . More information on the changes to find with Meson 0.60 via MesonBuild.com .